United States v. Hank Jennings

How courts have described this case

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• after being tipped by DEA agents regarding drug shipment, airline employee after inviting DEA agent to be present searched a suspicious-looking package
• \government agent may not avoid constitutional restraints upon his conduct by procuring a private individual to perform a forbidden act for him\
• “A governmental agent may not avoid constitutional restraints upon his conduct by procuring a private individual to perform a forbidden act for him.”
• airline employee decided to open package himself, before he telephoned government agent
• airline employee decided to open package himself, before he telephoned government agent

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).