182194P.pdf   06/20/2019  Adam Lane  v.  Joseph Boyd
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  18-2194
   U.S. District Court for the Western District of Arkansas - Ft. Smith   
   [PUBLISHED] [Melloy, Author, with Benton and Shepherd, Circuit Judges] 
   Civil case - civil rights. In a case where state officers entered a 
   parolee's motel room without knocking and announcing their presence, the 
   district court erred in finding the officers were not entitled to 
   qualified immunity on plaintiff's claim that the search violated his 
   Fourth Amendment rights; even assuming that the officers violated the 
   Fourth Amendment, it was not clearly established at the time of their 
   actions that failing to knock and announce before entering the dwelling of 
   a parolee was unlawful; plaintiff's argument that there was a robust 
   consensus of persuasive authority on the question is rejected.