Legal Opinion

United States v. Liu Yiu-Pong

Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

Decided June 10, 1999No. 98-4061PublishedCited by 31 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

BOWMAN, Chief Judge.

The United States appeals from the order of the District Court approving without further analysis the Report and Recommendation of the Magistrate Judge to whom pretrial motions had been referred, thereby sustaining Yiu-Pong Liu’s motion to suppress evidence and statements as illegally obtained. We reverse.

The facts of the case are essentially without dispute. On the morning of August 28, 1998, drug interdiction detectives Dan Wilson and George Barrios of the Kansas City, Missouri, Police Department boarded an Amtrak train en route from Los Angeles to Chicago at its…

2Cases cited6 opinions

  1. California v. Hodari D.Supreme Court of the United States · 1991
  2. United States v. Carless Jones and Eugene HarveyCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1983
  3. United States v. Otis TugwellCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1997
  4. United States v. Jamal Deshon SegarsCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1994
  5. United States v. Willie Roy WashingtonCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1998

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  4. United States v. Khayree HarrisonCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 2012
  5. United States v. VoiceCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 2010

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