Legal Opinion
John E. Wiren v. Donald Eide, as District Director of the Bureau of Customs
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided July 9, 1976No. 74-1169PublishedCited by 54 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KOELSCH, Circuit Judge:
On his return from Canada in February, 1972, appellant Wiren and the three passengers in his 1970 Volkswagen were stopped and searched at the Blaine, Washington, border station. When a body search of one of the passengers revealed a small quantity of hashish, customs agents seized Wiren’s car as a vehicle used to transport contraband into the United States.1 Immediately thereafter, Wiren — claiming he had no knowledge of the presence of hashish — petitioned the Secretary of the Treasury under 19 U.S.C. § 1618 for a remission or mitigation of the impending forfeiture of…
2Cases cited70 opinions
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