United States v. Francisco Rico-Soto

How courts have described this case

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

• determining that although the stop occurred approximately 450 miles from the border in Lake Charles, Louisiana, reasonable suspicion existed in part because the stop occurred on I-10, “a major alien-smuggling corridor”
• determining reasonable suspicion existed in part because “the van was traveling westbound through [the agent’s] location in the mid- morning, the main time, route, and direction [the agent’s] past experience has shown smugglers pass by through the area”
• determining reasonable suspicion existed in part because “the van was traveling westbound through [the agent’s] location in the mid-morning, the main time, route, and direction [the agent’s] past experience has shown smugglers pass by through the area”
• “[I]t is not unusual. . . for a car to be headed toward the city in which it is registered . . . . The fact that [the defendant] was driving on Interstate 10 alone would not be too helpful, because it is the most direct route back to Houston, where the van is registered.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).