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· 11/22/1974

United States v. Brian A. Anderson, Richard Quentin Felts, and Paul William Spicer,defendants-Appellants

Citations

  • 500 F.2d 1311

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that defendants had no standing because the defendants had “abandoned the luggage before the search took place” (emphasis added)
  • warrantless search of checked luggage impermissible, where police have effective control over the movement of that luggage
  • \a contemporaneous search of containers in the vehicle which could reasonably be employed in the illicit carriage of contraband is also constitutionally permissible.\
  • “[T]he discovery of marijuana in the trunk of the car certainly provided probable cause for the arrest.”
  • tipster's corroborated description of mode of operation to include rental of two cars, one for local and one for interstate use, \evinced a knowledge of the inner workings of the appellants' system\

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Judges: Brown, Ainsworth, Morgan

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