United States v. Jose Robles

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that drilling into machine part was a “non-routine” search that required reasonable suspicion
• holding that reasonable suspicion existed where a metal machine part of no commercial value was shipped “from Colombia — a known source country for narcotics” to a residence in the United States at a cost higher than its worth, without insurance
• noting that “benefits received are certainly strong evidence that the principal acquiesced in the agent’s transaction”
• holding, where the government conceded that drilling into metal cylinder was non-routine search, that the search was justified by reasonable suspicion
• \We have little difficulty concluding that drilling a hole into the cylinder was not a routine search.\
• “We have little difficulty concluding that drilling a hole into the cylinder was not a routine search.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).