United States Fifth Circuit

A canine "sniff-and contact" at a fixed immigration checkpoint, and subsequent questioning of defendant about drug activity, were reasonable under the circumstances and did not violate the Fourth Amendment. (Republished opinion)

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/28/2003
• Published 03/05/2003

Judges

• KING, Chief Judge:, Before KING, Chief Judge, and DeMOSS and CLEMENT, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Mitchel Neurock, Laredo, TX, Paula Camille Offenhauser and James Lee Turner, Asst. U.S. Attys, Houston, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellee., Roland E. Dahlin, II, Fed. Pub. Def., H. Michael Sokolow, George W. Aristotelidis, Houston, TX, for Defendant-Appellant.