United States First Circuit

Conviction and sentence for multiple parole violations are affirmed where: 1) the Supreme Court's decision in Hudson v. Michigan, 126 S. Ct. 2159 (2006) that a violation of the "knock and announce" rule in the course of executing a search warrant did not justify the suppression of evidence subsequently discovered applies with equal force in the context of an arrest warrant; 2) there was no clear error in the magistrate judge's determination that defendant's statements to police were voluntary; and 3) the sentencing judge correctly classified defendant as a career offender and the overall sentence was reasonable.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/28/2006
• Published 11/28/2006

Judges

• SELYA, Circuit Judge., Before SELYA and HOWARD, Circuit Judges, and SMITH, District Judge.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Michael B. Whipple, with whom Thomas F. Hallett Law Offices was on brief, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Margaret D. McGaughey, Assistant United States Attorney (Appellate Chief), with whom Paula D. Silsby, United States Attorney, was on brief, for appellee.