Although the police, during the execution of a knock-and-announce search warrant, seized heroin, fentanyl, and marijuana, the court suppressed the evidence. Why? Because the police neither knocked nor announced their presence. State v. Caronna, 2021 WL 5098249; ___ N.J. Super. ___ ( App. Div. 2021).

Thus, the issue: Does the exclusionary rule apply to a violation of a knock-and-announce warrant? Yes, said the court, because "Article I, paragraph 7 of the New Jersey Constitution generally provides greater protection against unreasonable searches and seizures than the Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution."