Assume that police possess both a search warrant for the home of a known drug trafficker and an arrest warrant. The drug trafficker was commonly believed to be armed and dangerous and at home
When the police arrived at the subject's house to serve two warrants, the Fourth Amendment standard of reasonableness
A) does not recognize any knock-and-announce policy, so the police may make the type of entry that they believe will be both safe and effective to execute the warrants.
B) allows the knock-and-announce requirement to be ignored only if the judge has included that order on the face of an arrest or search warrant.
C) always requires that the police knock and announce their presence, in order to give the wanted person a chance to surrender peacefully to law-enforcement officials.
D) requires the use of the knock- and-announce requirement only for arrest warrants where custody of a person is the goal.
E) strongly favors the knock-and-announce policy but allows police to ignore the knock and announce policy where the circumstances would or could subject the police officers to an enhanced danger.
E
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