Legal Opinion
United States v. James Thomas York and Stephen Joseph York
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided August 23, 1978No. 77-5633PublishedCited by 51 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ALVIN B. RUBIN, Circuit Judge:
During a visit to his brother, James, an inmate at the Federal Correctional Institution at Miami, Florida, Stephen York unknowingly dropped from his pants leg, while the two were on the visitor’s patio, an orange balloon, which was retrieved by Correctional Officer Cason and found to contain marihuana. The brothers were separated by prison authorities. Stephen was searched, and nothing was found on him. James was taken to a segregation room, stripped and searched by a security officer. Nothing was found. A half hour later a captain on the institution force…
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3Cited by51 opinions
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