Legal Opinion
United States v. Tunya Reginera Poitier
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided July 30, 1987No. 86-1616PublishedCited by 74 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MAGILL, Circuit Judge.
In this ease we examine whether the district court correctly ordered suppression of evidence obtained through a search at an airport. We conclude that the district court erred in suppressing the evidence, and accordingly we reverse.
I. FACTS.
At about 11:30 a.m. on December 19, 1985, Special Agent Paul Markonni of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) was at Gate A-20 of the Atlanta Airport in Atlanta, Georgia, watching the arrival of Delta Airlines Flight No. 817 from Miami, Florida. He saw the appellee, Tunya Reginera Poitier, leave the plane, approach a Delta agent,…
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