· 4/21/1987
United States v. Jeffrey Scott Alpert
Citations
- 816 F.2d 958
- 1987 U.S. App. LEXIS 5198
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- including \diligence\ as second of five bases for evaluating reason- 19 ableness of prolonged seizure
- including \diligence\ as second of five bases for evaluating reason ableness of prolonged seizure
- Fourth Circuit refuses to adopt per se rule that police keep narcotics dogs at airport whenever they are observing for drug couriers
- 50-minute delay of defendant’s bag reasonable where officers did not know in advance of defendant’s arrival
- reasonable to detain a bag for fifty minutes until a dog sniff could be performed
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Judges: Widener, Phillips, Haynsworth
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