Court Opinion

ID: 9665971
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 01:00:57.214568+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:28:55.189966
License: Public Domain

HENDERSON, Justice
(concurring in result).
These officers were acting under the authority of a warrant of arrest. A peaceful determination, through the judicial process of these officers’ authority, is highly preferable to a potentially dangerous confrontation. Every peaceful effort was made, by these officers, to serve this warrant of arrest. They did not trigger or cause an explosive situation. Rather, the explosive situation was all the handmaiden of the appellant’s own conduct. Appellant refused to be arrested, after a proper knock and announce effort by the officers. The point is: These officers were legally on the appellant’s premises, pursuant to their authority and were acting under the command of a judicial officer, via an arrest warrant.
I still cannot bring myself to adopting the test in United States v. Heliczer, cited in the majority opinion, adopted in State v. Cook, cited in the majority opinion, and to *225which I took an exception, which exception still remains.