Legal Opinion
Hitchmon v. United States
District Court, S.D. Florida
Decided April 16, 1984No. 81-2016-CIV-JAG, 81-1973-CIV-JAGPublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
NORTHROP, Senior District Judge, Sitting by Designation.
I. FACTUAL BACKGROUND
The above-captioned litigation arises from an arrest on April 25, 1975, at approximately 12:30 a.m., and from the events surrounding that arrest. 1 On April 24, 1975, Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”) Special Agents Herbert Williams and John Andrejko commenced a surveillance at Miami International Airport of the Pan American warehouse, in response to a tip that a large load of marijuana was being smuggled into the country from Jamaica. The agents watched the warehouse from their car parked nearby. At trial, the…
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