United States Ninth Circuit

The delay of 15-20 seconds after a single knock and announcement before police forced entry was, without an affirmative denial of admission or other exigent circumstances, sufficient in duration to satisfy the constitutional safeguards of the Fourth Amendment.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/05/2002
• Published 03/05/2002

Judges

• Before:  POLITZ,W. FLETCHER, and FISHER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Randall J. Roske, Las Vegas, NV, for the defendant-appellant., J. Walter Green and Karyn Kenny, USLV-Office of the U.S. Attorney, Las Vegas, NV, for the plaintiff-appellee.