United States v. Earna Jean Pringle and Harold Elston

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• holding that search of package arriving from Thailand at a mail sorting room at a port of entry was valid under § 1582 and the Fourth Amendment
• considering a search conducted in a mail sorting room at a port of entry to be at a “border area”
• rejecting defendant’s conten- tion that search of inbound package from Thailand required “reasonable cause to suspect” unlawfulness under 19 U.S.C. § 482 where 19 U.S.C. § 1582 codified suspicionless search of all mail at the border
• search of international mail at port of entry reasonable under fourth amendment simply because mail has crossed border
• warrantless search by Customs of incoming international mail did not violate fourth amendment despite absence of any ground for suspicion
• use of false name in signing for receipt

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