{"id":182,"date":"2012-12-06T05:42:59","date_gmt":"2012-12-06T05:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.massachusettscriminaldefenselawyerblog.com\/2012\/12\/recently-a-north-carolina-cour.html"},"modified":"2012-12-06T05:42:59","modified_gmt":"2012-12-06T05:42:59","slug":"recently-a-north-carolina-cour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/recently-a-north-carolina-cour\/","title":{"rendered":"Knock and Talk Searches Explained by Brockton Criminal Lawyer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One issue a criminal defense lawyer may use in defending a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/drug-crimes.html\">Massachusetts drug crime<\/a> is to challenge the use of &#8220;Knock and Talk&#8221; searches often utilized by law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>            &#8220;Knock and Talk&#8221; is a law enforcement tactic that police officers practice when they lack sufficient evidence, probable cause, or reasonable suspicion to obtain a search warrant. Typically, working off a tip, an officer will arrive at the suspect&#8217;s home, engage in conversation at the door, and then attempt to gain consent from the suspect to search the premises. This does not violate the 4th Amendment that guards against an unlawful searches or seizures so long as the suspect gives consent to search. However, a court will take into consideration if a reasonable person would have felt pressure by the officer to allow the search. &#8220;Knock and Talk&#8221; procedures are on the edge of being unlawful because this tactic has a great risk for abuse that may challenge the 4th amendment.<\/p>\n<p>A criminal defense attorney in the North Carolina Court of Appeals was recently successful in challenging &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/definitions.uslegal.com\/k\/knock-and-talk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Knock and Talk<\/a>&#8221; tactics when the court ruled that Marijuana plants seized during a routine &#8220;Knock and Talk&#8221; violated the plain view doctrine, <a href=\"http:\/\/law.justia.com\/cases\/north-carolina\/court-of-appeals\/2012\/12-577.html\" target=\"_blank\">State v. Grice, No. COA12-577, North Carolina App. Ct. (2012).<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/recently-a-north-carolina-cour\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Knock and Talk Searches Explained by Brockton Criminal Lawyer\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One issue a criminal defense lawyer may use in defending a Massachusetts drug crime is to challenge the use of &#8220;Knock and Talk&#8221; searches often utilized by law enforcement. &#8220;Knock and Talk&#8221; is a law enforcement tactic that police officers practice when they lack sufficient evidence, probable cause, or reasonable suspicion to obtain a search [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-constitutional-defenses-in-drug-cases"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Knock and Talk Searches Explained by Brockton Criminal Lawyer &#8212; 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