United States Ninth Circuit

A sailboat was lawfully boarded by three different agencies, based on reasonable suspicion, and a lawful threat to employ a "canine sniff" did not render consent to search the vessel involuntary.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/06/2002
• Decided 07/18/2002
• Published 07/18/2002

Judges

• TALLMAN, Circuit Judge., Before: WALLACE, TASHIMA and TALLMAN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Rustam A. Barbree, Honolulu, HI, for the defendant-appellant., Marshall H. Silverberg, Assistant U.S. Attorney, Honolulu, HI, for the plaintiff-appellee.