Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Antwine
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided May 2, 1994PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtWilkins, J.
Shortly before midnight on January 23, 1991, State and Lynn police officers executed a warrant at the defendant’s residence, an apartment on the second floor at 1316 Lowell Street in Lynn. One officer knocked on a door of the apartment several times with his flashlight and identified himself as “police.” He did not announce the officers’ purpose for being there. The officers knew that there were three warrants outstanding for the defendant’s arrest and that the defendant was in the apartment. They heard no noise in the apartment. Approximately twenty seconds after the first knock, but before…
2Cases cited13 opinions
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