Legal Opinion
United States v. Ramon Rico, Appeal of Carlos Ortiz
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided March 2, 1979No. 445, Docket 78-1321PublishedCited by 50 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DOOLING, District Judge:
The appeal presents another instance in which persons arriving at an airport were made the subjects of an “investigative stop” on the suspicion that they were couriers carrying drugs from a “source city” to a “recipient” city, in this case from Chicago to New York. Appellant and his co-defendants, arrested at LaGuardia Airport on January 25, 1978, moved to suppress the physical evidence seized from them at the time they were stopped and arrested, and, when that motion was denied after an evidentiary hearing, appellant entered a plea of guilty to the second count of the…
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