United States Eleventh Circuit

In an action claiming that defendant-officer violated plaintiff's son's Fourth Amendment rights when he entered her home without first knocking and announcing the SWAT team's presence, a denial of summary judgment based on qualified immunity is reversed where a reasonable officer could have had reasonable suspicion that knocking and announcing his presence would have been dangerous under the circumstances facing the SWAT team.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/31/2009
• Published 08/31/2009

Judges

• PER CURIAM:, Before EDMONDSON, BLACK and SILER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Scott D. Alexander, Johnson Anselmo Murdoch Burke Piper & McDuff, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, for Defendant-Appellant., Terrence P. Collingsworth, Conrad & Scherer, Washington, DC, Janine Kalagher McGuire, Conrad & Scherer, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.