United States v. Cedric Aldaz

How courts have described this case

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• “Under the facts before us, the detention and delay of Aldaz’s packages were not unreasonable.”
• \Postal authorities may seize and detain packages if they have a reasonable and articulable suspicion of criminal activity.\
• “Postal authorities may seize and detain packages if they have a reasonable and articulable suspicion of criminal activity.” (citation omitted)
• delay of six days between seizure and search reasonable in light of conditions in remote Alaska
• detentions of 72 hours and 51/6 hours not unreasonable, where packages had to be flown 700 miles to nearest trained dogs, and canine sniff could not be conducted until next day because packages arrived in the evening
• delay to transport package for dog sniff

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).