United States Ninth Circuit

Because the use of a "Buster," a radioactive density measuring device, involved no greater intrusion on defendant than is caused by typcial vehicle searches, this search was a valid border search that did not require reasonable suspicion.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/27/2004
• Published 05/27/2004

Judges

• FISHER, Circuit Judge:, Before: FISHER and BYBEE, Circuit Judges, and MAHAN, District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Ellis M. Johnston III, Federal Defenders of San Diego, Inc., San Diego, CA, for the defendant-appellant., Carol C. Lam, United States Attorney, Joseph S. Smith, Jr., Assistant United States Attorney, United States Attorney's Office, San Diego, CA, for the plaintiff-appellee.