Louisville Courier Journal: Was a ‘no-knock’ warrant justified to search Breonna Taylor’s home? Several experts say no

Louisville Courier Journal: Was a ‘no-knock’ warrant justified to search Breonna Taylor’s home? Several experts say no by Andrew Wolfson (“A national authority on search and seizure law says the no-knock warrant that Louisville police obtained for Breonna Taylor’s apartment should not have been issued because there was no evidence justifying it in that particular case. … The U.S. Supreme Court has said judges may allow police to search without knocking when they have a reasonable suspicion that under the ‘particular circumstances’ of the case, the targets could destroy evidence. … But Professor Christopher Slobogin, director of Vanderbilt University’s Criminal Justice Program, said ‘unless the police had reason to believe this particular house had cameras, and explained that reason to the judge, a no-knock warrant would be improper.’”)

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