In Wilson v. Arkansas (1995) 514 U.S. 927, police officers armed with a warrant opened the unlocked screen door of the defendant's residence and entered while identifying themselves and stating they had a warrant. The state trial court denied the defendant's suppression motion, and this was affirmed on appeal. (Id. at p. 930.) However, the United States Supreme Court reversed, explaining: "Our own cases have acknowledged that the common-law principle of announcement is 'embedded in Anglo-American law,' but we have never squarely held that this principle is an element of the reasonableness inquiry under the Fourth Amendment. We now so hold. Given the longstanding common-law endorsement of the practice of announcement, we have little doubt that the Framers of the Fourth Amendment thought that the method of an officer's entry into a dwelling was among the factors to be considered in assessing the reasonableness of a search or seizure." (Id. at p. 934.)