United States Seventh Circuit

Under the extended border search doctrine, where customs officers had a reasonable certainty that defendant had crossed the border and that his luggage had not changed in condition, and they had a reasonable suspicion that criminal activity was occurring, search of defendant who had passed through customs without incident and left international terminal to catch a connecting flight, was reasonable under the Fourth Amendment.

Appellate Information

• Argued 01/07/2002
• Decided 04/04/2002
• Published 04/04/2002

Judges

• MANION, Circuit Judge., Before MANION, ROVNER, and EVANS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Deborah Steiner (argued), Office of the United States Attorney, Chicago, IL, for plaintiff-appellee., James A. Graham (argued), Chicago, IL, for defendant-appellant.