Legal Opinion
United States v. Keith Hawkins
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided January 28, 1997No. 96-1786PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LÓKEN, Circuit Judge.
Keith Hawkins appeals his conviction and 210-month sentence for possession with intent to distribute cocaine base. He raises suppression, trial, and sentencing issues on appeal. We affirm.
I
An informant told Little Rock police that Hawkins was dealing crack cocaine out of his home. Police employed the informant to make a controlled drug buy and then obtained a warrant to search Hawkins’s home later that day. To execute the warrant, members of the Little Rock Police Department’s “SWAT” team entered the house without knocking or announcing, handcuffed Hawkins, and placed him…
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