United States v. James J. Pratt

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that individuals “approach official [airport Customs inspections] inquiry knowing of its greater necessity and routine”
• finding that a fifteen-minute encounter “supports a characterization of routine [C]ustoms inquiry rather than custodial interrogation”
• noting that “increased official suspicion,” even when a suspect is aware of the suspicion, “is not sufficient by itself to apply coercive pressures equivalent to custodial questioning”
• questioning routine where agents based decision to conduct secondary inspection on fact that defendant was traveling from known drug source country, paid for plane ticket in cash, and wore bulky clothes
• air traveler subjected to pat-down by customs agents in a small windowless room was deemed not to be in custody and not entitled to Miranda warnings
• emphasizing the relatively brief 15-minute duration

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).