United States v. Jesus Rivera-Marquez

OPINION

ALFRED T. GOODWIN, Circuit Judge:

This appeal from a conviction of illegal importation of cocaine challenges the validity of a border search and the constitutionality of a lifetime parole given under 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(A). 1

Acting upon an informer’s tip that a man named Jesse or Jesus Rivera would be bringing hard narcotics across the international border at San Ysidro, on the day the informer had indicated, border patrol agents subjected four men named Rivera to intensive pat-down searches. The defendant was the fourth Rivera patted down that day. In their palpation of Rivera’s…