United States v. Robert Dice,defendant-Appellee

OPINION

NATHANIEL R. JONES, Circuit Judge.

This case arises from a battle in the “war on drugs” that the Government lost because it failed to abide by one of the key rules of engagement. Specifically, the district court found a violation of the Fourth Amendment’s knock-and-announce rule and excluded evidence seized in the resulting search. Acknowledging its constitutional infraction, the United States challenges the district court’s suppression order on more narrow grounds. For the reasons stated below, we AFFIRM.

I

A

The seriousness of the resulting suppression order prompts us to set forth in…