United States Fifth Circuit

Where government agents were aware of and identified specific and articulable facts that led them to suspect that the defendant was involved in the illegal activity of transporting illegal aliens, the totality of the circumstances renders the search reasonable.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/19/2001
• Published 01/19/2001

Judges

• REYNALDO G. GARZA, Circuit Judge:, Before REYNALDO G. GARZA, STEWART and DENNIS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• David Hill Peck (argued), James Lee Turner, Asst. U.S. Atty., Don Calvert, Houston, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellee., Roland E. Dahlin, II, Fed. Pub. Def., Jeffrey L. Wilde, Asst. Fed. Pub. Def., Laura Fletcher Leavitt (argued), Houston, TX, for Defendant-Appellant.