United States v. Ortiz

Border Patrol officers stopped respondent’s car for a routine immigration search at the traffic checkpoint' *892on Interstate Highway 5 at San Clemente, Cal., on November 12, 1973. They found three aliens concealed in the trunk, and respondent was convicted on three counts of knowingly transporting aliens who were in the country illegally. The Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reversed the conviction in an unreported opinion, relying on dictum in its opinion in United States v. Bowen, 500 F. 2d 960 (CA9 1974), aff’d, post, p. 916, to the effect that our decision in Almeida-Sanchez v. United…