Legal Opinion
United States v. Acosta-Colon
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided October 5, 1998No. 97-1170PublishedCited by 217 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
STAHL, Circuit Judge.
A dog-sniff at the San Juan international airport alerted authorities to the possible presence of narcotics in four suitcases checked on a domestic flight to New York City. Based on information that indirectly linked defendant Carlos Ruben Acosta-Colon (“Acosta”) to these bags, three law enforcement officials stopped Acosta and two persons traveling with him as they attempted to board the flight. At issue in this appeal is the constitutionality of the ensuing thirty-minute detention that led to Acosta’s formal arrest. Conceding that Acosta was stopped on the basis of…
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