United States v. Michael Paul Udofot

How courts have described this case

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

• upholding the “x-raying of appellant’s luggage” once the court determined that the search was a border search and without analyzing what quantum of suspicion the government possessed
• checking bags through to foreign destination makes crossing of border a virtual certainty
• “Although the instructions could have been worded differently, when viewed as a whole, they accurately and adequately define the essential elements of the offense.”
• \[T]he Government's sovereign authority to protect itself justifies a warrantless search without probable cause of persons crossing the United States' border and of their personal effects.\
• “[T]he Government’s sovereign authority to protect itself justifies a warrantless search without probable cause of persons crossing the United States’ border and of their personal effects.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).