United States v. Chabot

How courts have described this case

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• acknowledging that the search of a pilot who arrived in St. Thomas from Puerto Rico was a valid border search for which no warrant was required
• explaining that the U.S. Virgin Islands is a “customs zone” separate and apart from the United States, Puerto Rico, and other United States possessions, and thus the border search exception applies to persons entering St. Croix from Puerto Rico
• border search exception applies to persons entering Virgin Islands from Puerto Rico

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).