Legal Opinion
United States v. Deandre J. Scroggins
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided April 28, 2004No. 03-2279PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BEAM, Circuit Judge.
This appeal involves a no-knock warrant, a joint state-federal task force conducting a no-knock search pursuant to that warrant, and the district court’s decision to suppress the fruits of that search. While we express no opinion about the constitutionality of the search, we reverse because the law-enforcement agents relied in good faith upon the warrant’s authorization to enter without knocking.
I. BACKGROUND
Detective James Svoboda was a Kansas City, Missouri, police officer who served on the FBI Criminal Enterprise Narcotics Task Force, which was a joint anti-drug task…
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