United States v. Wendy Jean Wardlaw, Etc., United States of America v. Beverly Deanne Randell, Etc.

How courts have described this case

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• finding that when a suspect has had his or her luggage checked, but remains at the site of the border, a second inspection is still a routine search
• finding that when a suspect has merely passed through a luggage inspection but not yet left the site of the border a secondary inspection is still a routine border search
• applying relaxed standard for search at international border where defendant not only cleared Customs, but also left the airport building before being called back to Customs
• “what constitutes ‘reasonable suspicion’ to justify a particular search may not suffice to justify a more intrusive or demeaning search.”
• in sentencing, judge focused on possible effect on narcotics dealers without considering mitigating or aggravating factors for individual defendants
• border search conducted after defendant left customs enclosure and was waiting for a cab

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).