Legal Opinion
United States v. Kevin C. Ward
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided May 12, 1998No. 97-1810PublishedCited by 54 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ILANA DIAMOND ROVNER, Circuit Judge.
Kevin Ward was arrested at the Greyhound bus terminal in Indianapolis when he attempted to claim a bag made to look like one that he had checked onto a bus in Los Angeles. As he soon discovered, the authorities had taken the real bag off the bus in Springfield, Missouri, subjected it to a canine sniff and, pursuant to a search warrant obtained after the dog “alerted” to the bag, opened it to discover a kilogram of cocaine and a loaded firearm inside. Ward eventually was convicted of attempting to possess cocaine with the intent to distribute. See 21 U.S.C.…
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