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Article: United States v. Ankeny: remedying the Fourth Amendment's reasonable manner requirement.
- Article from:
- The Yale Law Journal
- Article date:
- January 1, 2008
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At 5:30 a.m., just before dawn, forty-four police officers converged on Kelly David Ankeny's two-story Portland residence to execute a warrant for his arrest. The officers in charge had spent weeks crafting a plan to arrest Ankeny, a convicted and wanted felon, for assaulting his estranged wife with a firearm. In a matter of seconds, heavily armed police broke down the building's first-floor doors, while others outside fired rubber bullets through the building's second-floor windows, spewing glass into the house and leaving holes in the ceiling and furniture. The first officer who encountered Ankeny pointed a rifle-mounted flashlight in his eyes and ordered him to the ...