United States v. Peltier

Four months before this Court’s decision in Almeida-Sanchez v. United States, 413 U. S. 266 (1973), respondent was stopped in his automobile by a roving border patrol, and three plastic garbage bags containing 270 pounds of marihuana were found in the trunk of his car by Border Patrol agents. On the basis of this evidence an indictment was returned charging him with a violation of 84 Stat. 1260, 21 U. S. C. § 841 (a) (1). When respondent’s motion to suppress the evidence was denied after a hearing, he stipulated in writing that he “did knowingly and intentionally possess, with intent to…