Identify the three major exceptions to the "knock-and-announce" rule

What will be an ideal response?


There are three major exceptions to the "knock-and-announce" rule: (1) where knocking and announcing would reasonably present a threat of physical violence to the officers executing the warrant; (2) where the officers are in hot pursuit of a person who retreats into a dwelling; and (3) where police officers have reason to believe that knocking and announcing would result in the destruction of evidence that police were coming to search for.

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Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

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Which of the following groups were known as masters of guerrilla warfare?

a. Sicarii b. Komitehs c. Luddites d. People’s Will

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Within a few years following the end of the hands-off doctrine, the ________ intervened in the running of prisons in numerous states

a. federal courts b. U.S. Bureau of Prisons c. U.S. Attorney General d. U.S. Congress

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Bush was president when Colombia was awarded a substantial amount in U.S. aid to begin a unified campaign against drug trafficking and the activities of groups designated as terrorists

a. True b. False

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