United States v. Juan Mederos Gomez

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a 12- to 14- hour investigative detention by the police before they obtained probable cause was not unreasonable
• holding no seizure occurred when a drug-interdiction officer moved a package to a command center twenty yards from a conveyor belt in a post office’s sorting area
• finding “minimal interference with Gomez’s possessory interest” and holding no seizure occurred when a drug interdiction officer at a U.S. Postal Service facility moved a package to a command center twenty yards from a conveyor belt in a sorting area
• “The record demonstrates that [Nichols] acted as expeditiously as the circumstances would allow to establish and document the facts necessary to support a lawful search and to apply for a warrant.”
• \The record demonstrates that [Nichols] acted as expeditiously as the circumstances would allow to establish and document the facts necessary to support a lawful search and to apply for a warrant.\
• reasonable suspicion existed when package was heavily taped around all edges and seams, sent from a known source city for narcotics and sent during a time of the week when law enforcement would supposedly be least active

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).