United States Second Circuit

Where initial search of claimant's briefcase by airport security personnel comported with the Fourth Amendment, and detention of claimant's briefcase could be justified by reasonable suspicion alone, money orders found in plain view inside briefcase, and other evidence derived from seizure of the briefcase, properly admitted; with no basis for suppression, the evidence demonstrated probable cause for forfeiture and supported jury verdict.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/27/2002
• Published 03/27/2002

Judges

• SOTOMAYOR, Circuit Judge., Before: MESKILL, KEARSE, and SOTOMAYOR, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• J.C. Elso, Miami, FL, for the appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Sarah J. Lum, Assistant United States Attorney, Brooklyn, NY (Varuni Nelson, Arthur P. Hui, on the brief), for Loretta E. Lynch, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, for the appellee.