Legal Opinion
United States v. Lopez
District Court, E.D. New York
Decided May 14, 1971No. 70 Cr 813PublishedCited by 100 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM
WEINSTEIN, District Judge.
Defendant is charged with concealing and facilitating the transportation of heroin and of conspiring to commit that crime. 21 U.S.C. §§ 173, 174. He has moved to suppress heroin taken from his person.
Presented is the question of whether the anti-hijacking system used at our airports is constitutional. For the reasons indicated below, we hold the system valid. Nevertheless, because in this particular case the elegant and objective method devised by the government to deter and apprehend hijackers was distorted in an irrational and prejudicial way by airlines…
2Cases cited90 opinions
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- Mapp v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1961
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3Cited by100 opinions
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- George Karnes v. Thomas Skrutski, in His Individual Capacity Edward Kowalski, in His Individual CapacityCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1995
- United States v. Henry BellCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1972
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