Legal Opinion
Jim Floyd v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided November 7, 1988No. 88-1065PublishedCited by 79 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BALDOCK, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from a district court order requiring the government to return to petitioner-appellee Jim Floyd (Floyd) $41,440 in currency. Our jurisdiction arises from 28 U.S.C. § 1291.
I. Background
On September 12, 1987, Floyd proceeded through the passenger screening area at Denver’s Stapleton International Airport. When private security agents were unable to mechanically screen the contents of a duffel bag carried by Floyd, an agent asked and received Floyd’s permission to manually search the bag. Inside the bag the agent found large amounts of U.S. currency…
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