ARCHIE v. STATE

No. 2497, September Term, 2002.

867 A.2d 1120 (2005)

161 Md. App. 226

Fleance Tyrone ARCHIE v. STATE of Maryland.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

February 14, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen Sacks, Baltimore, for appellant.

Rachel Marblestone Kamins (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., on brief), for appellee.

Panel MURPHY, C.J., SALMON, THEODORE G. BLOOM, (Retired, specially assigned), JJ.


MURPHY, C.J.

This appeal from the Circuit Court for Washington County presents the question of whether officers serving a search warrant violated the "knock and announce" rule because, after announcing their purpose and authority, they entered before they were denied admittance by the lessee of the apartment described in the warrant.1 A Washington County jury (the Honorable Fred C. Wright, III, presiding) convicted Fleance Tyrone Archie...

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