United States Fifth Circuit

Grant of defendant's motion to suppress evidence of marijuana discovered in the exterior luggage bin of a commercial bus during an immigration checkpoint stop is reversed where the district court erred in granting the motion since the drug evidence against defendant was not the fruit of an illegally extended seizure.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/20/2006
• Published 04/20/2006

Judges

• REAVLEY, Circuit Judge:, Before REAVLEY, HIGGINBOTHAM and CLEMENT, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Mitchel Neurock, James Lee Turner, Asst. U.S. Atty., Houston, TX, Matthew James Rinka, Laredo, TX, for U.S., Marjorie A. Meyers, Fed. Pub. Def., Molly E. Odom, Sarah Beth Landau, Houston, TX, for Ventura.