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· 5/1/1985

United States v. Serafin Alfonso, Humberto Rayo, Fabian Mora, Primo Antonio Serrano-Tellez

Citations

  • 759 F.2d 728
  • 18 Fed. R. Serv. 1398
  • 1985 U.S. App. LEXIS 30539

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  • concluding that other evidence of drug shipments aboard vessel sufficed to justify search
  • concluding that other evidence of drug shipments aboard vessel sufficed to justify search
  • finding a border search delayed thirty-six hours was justified by reasonable suspicion under the extended border search rationale
  • applying “the same level of reasonable suspicion” standard required to search the ship more broadly to the search of the living quarters
  • search of Columbia vessel in Los Angeles harbor within a day-and-a-half after arrival constituted an extended border search

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Judges: Tuttle, Hug, Poole

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