The Supreme Court sided with the state of Michigan in the Hudson case.

No opinion online yet. The vote was 5-4.

Because of qualified and sovereign immunity, which effectively bar both officers and the state from civil suits in these cases, there is now no effective penalty for police who conduct illegal no-knock raids.

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