United States First Circuit

Suppression of evidence seized during a body cavity search is vacated and remanded where further proceedings are necessary to determine whether an officer ordering the search possessed sufficient credible information to establish a reasonable suspicion that defendant was concealing drugs internally.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/29/2007
• Published 10/29/2007

Judges

• TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge., Before TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge, JOHN R. GIBSON, Senior Circuit Judge, and LIPEZ, Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Donald C. Lockhart, Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Robert Clark Corrente, United States Attorney, and Zechariah Chaffee, Assistant United States Attorney, were on brief, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Judith H. Mizner, Assistant Federal Public Defender, Federal Defender Office, District of Massachusetts, for appellee.