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· 7/1/1960

Johnny Espinoza v. United States

Citations

  • 278 F.2d 802

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • noting that with probable cause, an officer may search a suspect's mouth for drugs
  • the officers choked the defendant and attempted \to pry open his mouth by placing pressure against his jaw and nose\
  • the officers choked the defendant and attempted \to pry open his mouth by placing pressure against his jaw and nose\
  • constitutional for an officer to hold a suspect’s throat and pry open their mouth in order to prevent the suspect from ingesting narcotics
  • upholding a forcible search of an arrestee’s mouth for narcotics

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Judges: Hutcheson, Brown, Wisdom

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