Legal Opinion
United States of America,plaintiff-Appellee v. Andrew Charles Thomas
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided May 8, 2000No. 99-10355PublishedCited by 37 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
REINHARDT, Circuit Judge:
We are asked to decide whether the sound of a package of marijuana being dropped into a vehicle is sufficiently distinctive to provide law enforcement officers reasonable suspicion to stop and search the vehicle. We conclude that it is not and reverse the defendant’s convictions.
I. Background
On December 23, 1997, agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) told Detective Daniel Jankowski of the Pima County Sheriffs Department that he “might want to pay particular attention to a certain house” in Tucson because there was “a suspicion that there was a…
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