United States v. Venerando German Serrano, Pedro Ricardo Gutierrez, Jesus Hernandez, Juan Raymond Herrera and Raul Hernandez

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• travel-ling at night without navigation lights, exchange of lights with another darkened vessel, shrimper vessel stopped in shallow area near residential area
• finding no extrajudicial source where the judge’s comments “in context clearly demonstrate[] that any pre- disposition to sentence volume drug offenders severely stemmed from his observations in a strictly judicial capacity”
• customs officials must have a reasonable suspicion of criminal activity before stopping a vessel on inland waters
• customs officials must have a reasonable suspicion of criminal activity before stopping a vessel on inland waters
• silence found to be totally inconsistent with defendants’ claim of innocence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).