Bouknight v. State

This is an appeal from a judgment based on the denial of a dispositive motion to suppress, and an appeal of sentences as cruel and unusual punishment. Appellants contend that Florida’s knock and announce statute, § 933.09, was illegally violated by officers’ entry into defendants’ home, and that the imposition of mandatory minimum sentence provided by § 893.135, Florida Statutes, is violative of the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution as cruel and unusual punishment. We affirm.

The officers in this case did not adhere to the requirements of the knock and announce statute, §…