PER CURIAM.
Because the state failed to establish an exigent circumstance that would permit law enforcement officers to enter the defendant's home without first knocking and announcing their presence, we reverse the trial court's order denying the motion to suppress filed by the defendant, Jimmy Wayne Craft.
The state argued, and the trial court ruled, that the officer peril exception to the knock-and-announce requirement justified the entry because the officers...
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