United States v. Mikal Habeeb Amuny, A/K/A James Anderson, A/K/A Jim Waters, and A/K/A Wayne Roberson, George Ellis Gaston, and Royce David Hebert

JERRE S. WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge:

Mikal Habeeb Amuny, a recent visitor to this Court,1 and his two confederates challenge the search and subsequent seizure of 550 pounds of marihuana found on board a private aircraft in which they had completed a flight. They also challenge their federal prosecution, since a state court had concluded that the search was unconstitutional and had suppressed the fruits of that search. We find that in their zeal to enforce the narcotics laws the officers conducted an unconstitutional search. We therefore reverse the district court’s denial of the appellants’…