United States v. Ricardo Palomino

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a jury could have inferred defendant’s knowledge of drugs in a hidden compartment as a result of defendant’s “control and possession of the vehicle” in addition to other factors including “his nervousness”
• suggesting that no constitutional violation occurred because drug questioning did not extend stop longer than was necessary for the original purpose of the stop
• finding that where the officer observed the defendant speeding and changing lanes without signaling, “even if [the officer] was motivated by a suspicion that the defendant fit into a drug courier profile, the stop was not unreasonable because probable cause existed”
• holding drunk driving stop to be constitutional where driver had been traveling significantly under the speed limit, had crossed two lanes of traffic at once, had straddled the right lane, and had been weaving back and forth between the right lane and the emergency lane
• the court upheld a search of a vehicle that was based on the detection of an odor that is associated with “ether-based cocaine”
• noting Texas-origin interstate trips are indicative of drug-courier activity

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).