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Hawai’i Supreme Court: Search Unreasonable Where Officers Knocked and Announced Their Presence Four Times Within 25 Seconds, Then Forced Entry
by Douglas Ankney
The Supreme Court of Hawai’i held that a search of a residence was unreasonable where officers knocked and announced their presence four times within 25 seconds and then forced entry.
At 6:15 a.m. on September 4, 2015, officers from the Honolulu Police Department (“HPD”) executed a search ...
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