United States v. Ethel Mae Merryman and Kenneth Darrell Brown

How courts have described this case

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

• finding reasonable suspicion when the defendant’s truck stopped before coming to a checkpoint and then made a U-turn and drove away, and when an agent following the truck then observed lumpy objects in the back
• only photograph not bearing numbers, only 1 depicting a Caucasian, and 1 of only 2 in color among those shown
• “This Circuit has held that the smelling of marijuana by an experienced observer furnishes probable cause for the search.”
• once agent smelled marijuana, he was justified in the search of the vehicle
• driver made a U-turn just prior to reaching a permanent checkpoint

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).