United States Fourth Circuit

A motion to suppress evidence was properly denied where defendant, standing outside his home in the presence of police as they were about to execute a valid search warrant, had all the benefits of the protections afforded by the "knock and announce" rule.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/09/2002
• Decided 07/08/2002
• Published 07/08/2002

Judges

• Before WIDENER, NIEMEYER, and GREGORY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Daniel William Stiller, Assistant Federal Public Defender, Greenbelt, Maryland, for Appellant.  Jane Meadowcroft Erisman, Assistant United States Attorney, Baltimore, Maryland, for Appellee.   ON BRIEF:  James Wyda, Federal Public Defender, Greenbelt, Maryland, for Appellant.  Thomas M. DiBiagio, United States Attorney, Andrea L. Smith, Assistant United States Attorney, Baltimore, Maryland, for Appellee.