Oscar John Huguez v. United States

HAUK, District Judge:

Here raised in this appeal is an issue which is coming before this and other Federal Appellate Courts with increasing frequency- — the validity and constitutionality of border searches conducted without a search warrant by forcible and intrusive invasion of an intimate human body cavity. In this case the appellant’s rectum was searched by forcible digital insertion and manipulation in locating and extracting four narcotic packets which were seized and introduced in evidence at appellant’s trial.

This issue necessarily raises the questions of “reasonableness” of the search…