United States v. Stanley MacPherson and Kenneth Underhill

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• three and one half miles from shore is functional equivalent of border
• evidence was insufficient to convict defendant where marijuana was neither visible nor odorous and government only proved that defendant was on board the vessel when Customs Agent discovered the drugs
• evidence insufficient to support conviction of crew members when no connection between crew members and vessel owners shown, vessel was on short voyage, marijuana was in hatch, and there was no odor of marijuana elsewhere in the boat
• Miranda warnings not required during customs questioning at the border

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).