United States v. Domingo S. Canieso and Siu Tsien Chou

FRIENDLY, Chief Judge:

Domingo S. Canieso, a Philippine diplomat assigned to that country’s embassy in Laos, and Siu Tsien Chou, a Chinese national, appeal from their well-merited conviction of conspiring to import approximately thirty-four pounds of almost pure heroin from Southeast Asia into the United States and related offenses. Both appellants challenge the judge’s ruling, at a pretrial suppression hearing, which sustained the validity of their arrests and the consequent seizure of the heroin; Chou raises some additional points.

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At the suppression hearing the Government did not offer the…