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· 5/24/2006

United States v. Dennis S. Goodwin

Citations

  • 449 F.3d 766
  • 2006 U.S. App. LEXIS 12808
  • 2006 WL 1409424

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that combination of fitting drug profile and giving suspicious answers justified officers’ seizure of defendant’s luggage
  • holding that combination of fitting drug profile and giving suspicious answers justified officers’ seizure of defendant’s luggage
  • holding that combination of fitting drug profile and giving suspicious answers justified officers’ seizure of defendant’s luggage
  • interpreting the Supreme Court’s Fourth Amendment jurisprudence to apply a sliding scale ap- proach where “the amount of permissible intrusion is a func- tion . . . of the gravity of the crime being investigated”
  • applying sliding scale approach under which greater danger requires less suspicion for reasonable search
  • interpreting the Supreme Court’s Fourth Amendment jurisprudence to apply a sliding scale ap- proach where “the amount of permissible intrusion is a func- tion . . . of the gravity of the crime being investigated”

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Judges: Cudahy, Posner, Wood

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