Legal Opinion
United States v. Albert Green
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided February 19, 1982No. 81-1281PublishedCited by 48 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LEVIN H. CAMPBELL, Circuit Judge.
On August 11,1980, the Coast Guard cutter Reliance encountered the Persistence, a 52-foot sloop flying a British flag, on the high seas, 55 miles east of Provincetown, Massachusetts. Several factors made the captain oí the- Reliance suspicious of the Persistence, and he eventually asked for and received British consent to board the vessel. A boarding party went to the Persistence. When they opened the main hatch to go below in order to verify the vessel’s “main beam” (registration) number, they discovered that the lower compartment was filled with bales of…
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