United States v. Jose Orlando Caicedo-Guarnizo

How courts have described this case

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• determining that search of defendant airline passenger who entered the country via New Orleans, then flew to Houston and on to Los Angeles was valid extended-border search
• upholding district court’s credibility determinations on volun-tariness of consent to search
• upholding district court's credibility determinations on voluntariness of consent to search
• listing “the continuity of surveillance over the suspected smuggler” as one “of the circumstances that the fact finder should consider” but upholding search despite some “interruptions in the surveillance” of the defendant
• listing “the continuity of surveillance over the suspected smuggler” as one “of the circumstances that the fact finder should consider” but upholding search despite some “interruptions in the surveillance” of the defendant
• “The validity of such a search depends on whether the fact finder, viewing the totality of the circumstances, is reasonably certain that the suspected smuggler did not acquire the contraband after crossing the border.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).