Legal Opinion
State v. Steffani
District Court of Appeal of Florida
Decided May 12, 1981No. 80-933PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
398 So.2d 475 (1981)
The STATE of Florida, Appellant,
v.
Noel STEFFANI, Jr., Appellee.
No. 80-933.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
May 12, 1981.
Janet Reno, State Atty. and Ira N. Loewy, Asst. State Atty., and Bruce H. Lehr, Legal Intern, for appellant.
Paul Morris, Miami, for appellee.
Before SCHWARTZ, NESBITT and FERGUSON, JJ.
SCHWARTZ, Judge.
This appeal by the state from an order of suppression presents the question of whether the "knock and announce" statute and Payton v. New York, 445 U.S. 573, 100 S.Ct. 1371, 63 L.Ed.2d 639 (1980) apply to the entry into a suspect's home of…
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