Legal Opinion
United States v. William Echols, A/K/A Steve Page
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided April 20, 1973No. 72-1577PublishedCited by 49 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MATTHES, Chief Judge.
We are again confronted, as we were in United States v. Burton, 475 F.2d 469 (8th Cir. 1973), 1973, with a controversy over the warrantless search of the luggage of an airline passenger and the question whether contraband found incident thereto was improperly admitted into evidence.
A three-count indictment charged that appellant, also known as Steve Page, (1) knowingly delivered to Trans World Airlines (TWA), a common carrier, a travel bag containing a Smith & Wesson model 19-2 .357 magnum loaded revolver and a box of cartridges for shipment in interstate commerce from…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Coolidge v. New HampshireSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- Burdeau v. McDowellSupreme Court of the United States · 1921
- Melvin Corngold v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1966
- Samuel Gold, Howard Guy Halbett, John Frank Fusco v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1967
- United States v. Peter Reuben OrtizCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1971
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3Cited by49 opinions
- United States v. Ronald BlakeCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1973
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- United States v. Raymond Edwards, United States of America v. David RichardsCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1979
- United States v. Ramon AlbaradoCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1974
- United States v. Cornelius FranklinCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1984
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