Legal Opinion
United States v. Paul Howard Gumerlock, United States of America v. Marc Paul Fannon
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided February 2, 1979No. 76-2732, 76-2700PublishedCited by 50 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BROWNING, Circuit Judge:
Heroin was discovered in packages delivered to United Airlines by appellants for shipment. Appellants were charged with possession and conspiracy to possess in violation of 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1) and 846; their motions to suppress were denied and they were convicted.
On appeal, a panel of this court held the search of appellants’ packages to have been governmental, rather than private, and therefore subject to Fourth Amendment requirements, which had not been met. United States v. Fannon, 556 F.2d 961 (9th Cir. 1977). It was undisputed that the packages *796were searched…
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