United States v. Shawn R. Washburn

How courts have described this case

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• holding that probable cause existed to search van for methamphetamine where two informants provided information that drugs were kept in van and defendant’s actions corroborated informant’s time line
• “[A] positive alert by a trained drug dog gives rise to probable cause to search a vehicle.”
• defendant’s “tendering of the suitcase to the others for delivery to another city in a different state does not even hint that he retained any control over it or had taken any precautions to maintain his supposed privacy interest in it”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).