United States v. Michael Francis Lafrance

How courts have described this case

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

• stating noon delivery schedule of Federal Express requires court to apply a “somewhat stricter time constraint” than in Van Leeuwen, but finding length of detention reasonable
• explaining when your suitcase is detained, you are not free to go about your travels
• stating “a possessory interest derives from rights in property, delineated by the parameters of law, in this case contract law” and characterizing Jacobsen as holding that “expectation of privacy derives from property law and longstanding cultural expectations.”
• temporary detention of package must be reasonable under the circumstances; reasonableness need not be judged by “least intrusive means” standard
• pólice initially instructed Federal Express to keep suspect package on delivery truck while arrangements made for canine sniff, so that there was no “interference with the package’s normal.course”
• police entitled to delay delivery if delay is based reasonable suspicion and is reasonably executed

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).