Legal Opinion

United States v. Hamza Kolsuz

Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

Decided May 9, 2018No. 16-4687PublishedCited by 47 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

PAMELA HARRIS, Circuit Judge:

Hamza Kolsuz was detained at Washington Dulles International Airport while attempting to board a flight to Turkey because federal customs agents found firearms parts in his luggage. After arresting Kolsuz, the agents took possession of his smartphone and subjected it to a month-long, off-site forensic analysis, yielding a nearly 900-page report cataloguing the phone's data. The district court denied Kolsuz's motion to suppress, applying the Fourth Amendment's border search exception and holding that the forensic examination was a nonroutine border search justified…

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2Cases cited29 opinions

  1. Katz v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
  2. Marbury v. MadisonSupreme Court of the United States · 1803
  3. Arizona v. GantSupreme Court of the United States · 2009
  4. Almeida-Sanchez v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
  5. United States v. JonesSupreme Court of the United States · 2012

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3Cited by47 opinions

  1. United States v. Nicholas YoungCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 2019
  2. United States v. Miguel CanoCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2019
  3. United States v. Donald WanjikuCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2019
  4. United States v. Karl TousetCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 2018
  5. United States v. Nikolai BosykCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 2019

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