United States v. Hilario Mendoza-Salgado, United States of America v. Ramon Edwardo Garcia

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that “courts generally view items such as ... large quantities of cash ... as ‘tools of the trade’ for distributing illegal drugs”
• explaining that the defendant’s desire for profit from an illicit transaction supports an inference that he was predisposed to committing the crime
• explaining that the defendant's desire for profit from an illicit transaction supports an inference that he was predisposed to committing the crime
• noting that “courts generally view items such as . . . large quantities of cash . . . as ‘tools of the trade’ for distributing illegal drugs”
• noting that, when considered alone, a 30- to 45-minute time period between an illegal entry and a consent “reveals little” about the defendant’s decision to permit the search
• noting that “courts generally view items such as . . . large quantities of cash . . . as ‘tools of the trade’ for distributing illegal drugs”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).