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· 5/18/1981

United States v. Raymond Wayne Ramos

Citations

  • 645 F.2d 318
  • 1981 U.S. App. LEXIS 13164

How courts have described this case

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  • second customs search conducted in airport lobby 30 minutes after leaving customs enclosure and after checking into hotel still valid as search at functional equivalent of border
  • search thirty minutes after defendant left customs enclosure and checked into airport hotel but had not gone to his room
  • second customs search conducted in airport lobby 30 minutes after leaving customs enclosure and after cheeking into hotel still valid as search at functional equivalent of border
  • “[A] routine, non-offensive pat-down or frisk made at the border is justified [solely] by a traveler’s request to cross our national border.”
  • valid search even though 30 minutes elapsed after defendant cleared airport customs and defendant had checked into an airport hotel

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Judges: Tuttle, Vance, Politz

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