Legal Opinion
United States v. Ihuoma R. Amaechi
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided April 13, 1993No. 92-1737PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CUMMINGS, Circuit Judge.
On August 15,1991, a suitcase arrived at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York from Lagos, Nigeria, addressed to one Doreen Bennett at the Children’s Home and Aid Society in Joliet, Illinois. According to trial testimony, a letter and waybill attached to the outside of the suitcase indicated that it contained traditional Nigerian clothing sent to Bennett as thanks for a gift of bibles to the Elder Okezie, Christ Devian Church in Aba, Nigeria. A customs inspector at the airport opened the suitcase and found that it was indeed stuffed with clothes. However, the inspector…
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