United States v. Timothy Nicholas Peterson, Darryl Ray Hood, Stephen Allen Falk, and Paul Jules Goudeau

How courts have described this case

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• noting that suppression might be proper remedy for statutorily unauthorized search, but declining to reach the issue
• finding joint venture where American officials described their actions as a “joint investigation” and were “involved daily in translating and decoding intercepted transmissions, as well as advising [foreign] authorities of their relevance”
• \The law of the foreign country must be consulted ... as part of the determination.\
• nexus was shown when there was “substantial evidence that the drugs were bound ultimately for the United States.”
• merely assuming without deciding that fourth amendment protections apply on the high seas
• extraterritorial application of statute is justified by protective principle and is constitutional

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).