Legal Opinion
United States v. Richard Harry Reeh, Arlington Douglas Sprecher, Theodore Duaine Jorden and Gary Michael Ryan
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided January 27, 1986No. 84-5724PublishedCited by 36 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
VANCE, Circuit Judge:
The defendants in this case were convicted on drug trafficking charges after the United States Coast Guard stopped and boarded their vessel in international waters and found it to contain a large amount of marijuana. Concluding that the Coast Guard’s boarding of the vessel was reasonable under the fourth amendment, we affirm the convictions.
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On January 13, 1982, the Coast Guard cutter TAMAROA sighted a vessel in international waters near the southeastern tip of Cuba. The vessel was traveling northeast through an area known as the “Windward Passage,” a route often used by…
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