Commonwealth v. Jimenez

In my view, the interests of officer safety justified dispensing with the requirement that the officers knock and announce their presence when executing this *223particular search warrant. Legitimate safety concerns were adequately identified and supported in the search warrant affidavit, and reevaluation at the scene did nothing to ameliorate those safety concerns. Indeed, as the court acknowledges, ante at 220 n.5, the facts of this case fit squarely within our prior decision in Commonwealth v. Rodriguez, 415 Mass. 447, 449-451 & n.2 (1993) (Rodriguez), in which we upheld a “no-knock” entry…