State v. Velasquez
Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals held that suppression of evidence as a remedy did not apply to officers’ violation of Oklahoma’s “knock and announce” requirement for executing a search warrant, and reaffirmed that the state’s search and seizure clause is substantively “identical” to the Fourth Amendment.
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The Curious Case of Oklahoma Search and Seizure
Because Oklahoma has two constitutional masters, it simultaneously has two different doctrines of search and seizure.