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· 9/14/2006

United States v. Todd John Lakoskey, United States of America v. Thomas James Lakoskey

Citations

  • 462 F.3d 965
  • 71 Fed. R. Serv. 291
  • 2006 U.S. App. LEXIS 23388
  • 2006 WL 2620628

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding voluntary consent did not “right the officers’ constitutional wrong” as the consent was made “on the heels of the illegal entry”
  • finding reasonable suspicion to detain Express Mail package with handwritten label sent from drug source state where return addressee’s name was fictitious and the inspector had received a tip to watch for drug shipments to defendant
  • final factor for admissibility under Rule 404(b) is that potential for prejudice does not exceed probative value
  • reasonable suspicion existed when a package was shipped via express mail from known source state for narcotics and the shipping label listed a fictitious return address
  • the first factor in the test for admissibility of such evidence under Rule 404(b
  • first factor for admissibility under Rule 404(b) is relevance to a material issue

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Judges: Bye, Hansen, Smith

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