United States v. Charles M. Anderson, Sandra Jane Szabo, and Luis Eduardo Ferreira

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• boarding of a private plane to ask passengers questions may be considered an investigative stop
• stating that 11 “the precise time when the lawful detention ripened into an unlawful arrest, if it did so at all, ‘is a 12 question of fact which depends on an evaluation of all the surrounding circumstances’”
• interpreting Van Leeuwen as providing that “[t]he legality of the continuing detention of [validity seized] luggage depends on whether such detention is reasonable, in light of all the surrounding circumstances ” (emphasis added
• police officers reasonably suspecting a chartered aircraft of transporting narcotics may stop and question the passengers regarding their relationship with the pilots and their knowledge of the presence of narcotics

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).