Legal Opinion
United States v. Raymond Richards
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided June 11, 1981No. 78-5728PublishedCited by 103 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ALVIN B. RUBIN, Circuit Judge:
Under the border search doctrine, federal agents may without a warrant inspect mail arriving in this nation from abroad. We here consider whether the foreign mail may be followed into the hands of its addressee and, immediately after delivery, be seized and searched without a warrant. Concluding that such a search is permitted by the border search rule when there has been continuous surveillance of the mail and reasonable suspicion that it contains contraband, we deny a motion to suppress the results of the search and affirm the conviction of the recipient for…
2Cases cited52 opinions
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- Chimel v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
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