United States Fifth Circuit

The "border search exception" to the Fourth Amendment, traditionally applied to searches of incoming cargo and baggage, applies with equal force to outgoing searches.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/13/2005
• Published 04/13/2005

Judges

• EDITH BROWN CLEMENT, Circuit Judge:, Before JONES, WIENER, and CLEMENT, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Paula Camille Offenhauser (argued) and James Lee Turner, Asst. U.S. Attys., Houston, TX, for U.S., Marjorie A. Meyers, Fed. Pub. Def., Timothy William Crooks (argued), Asst. Fed. Pub. Def., Houston, TX, for Odutayo.