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· 1/21/2004

United States v. Jose Manuel Morones

Citations

  • 355 F.3d 1108
  • 2004 U.S. App. LEXIS 798
  • 2004 WL 86748

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that the characteristics of the package, as articulated and explained by the officer, considered in light of the officer’s experience in drug interdiction, amount to the reasonable suspicion necessary to constitutionally seize the package
  • holding that the characteristics of the package, as articulated and explained by the officer, considered in light of the officer's experience in drug interdiction, amount to the reasonable suspicion necessary to constitutionally seize the package
  • holding a package was seized when it was removed from the mail stream and held for a dog sniff
  • holding seizure occurred when a law enforcement officer at a Federal Express facility removed a package from a conveyor belt to subject the package to a drug-sniffing dog
  • holding seizure occurred when a law enforcement officer at a Federal Express facility removed a package from a conveyor belt to subject the package to a drug- sniffing dog

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Judges: Arnold, Bowman, Murphy

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