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- Title: Commonwealth v. Arthur R. Scalise (And
- Author : Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts
- Release Date : January 15, 1982
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 76 KB
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The fact that objects named in a search warrant are by their nature amenable to ready destruction, such as narcotics, does not give police officers an automatic exception to the requirement that they knock and identify themselves when executing the warrant. [417-420] When police officers applying for a search warrant show probable cause to believe that the evidence which is the object of the warrant will be destroyed, a magistrate has the authority to issue a warrant dispensing with the requirement that police officers knock and identify themselves. [420-421]