Legal Opinion
In Re Search and Seizure, Al James Harper
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided January 6, 1988No. 87-1068PublishedCited by 47 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FAGG, Circuit Judge.
A1 James Harper appeals the district court’s dismissal of a motion he filed under Rule 41(e) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure seeking the return of twenty-nine thousand dollars seized from him by agents of the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA). See 21 U.S.C. § 881(a)(6). We affirm.
Harper’s cash was seized after a search of his carryon bag by airport security officials at a checkpoint scanner. Although the circumstances present a tenuous case of probable cause for the seizure, the DEA agents testified they suspected the money was connected with drug trafficking. The…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- United States v. Eight Thousand Eight Hundred & Fifty DollarsSupreme Court of the United States · 1983
- Louis Sager Hunsucker, Jr. v. Robert L. Phinney, District Director of Internal RevenueCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1974
- John Smith, Jr. v. Nicholas Deb. KatzenbachCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1965
- John H. Meier v. William Keller and Robert Bork, John H. Meier v. William Keller, John H. Meier v. Devoe HeatonCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1975
- United States v. Harold Wellington Rapp, Harold Wellington Rapp v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1976
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3Cited by47 opinions
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- Jim Floyd v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1988
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