United States v. Hyde

*107MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

I. INTRODUCTION

This matter is before the Court on the suppression motions of defendants Jewel Rose Hyde ("Hyde"), Patricia Gray ("Gray") and Karen Boothe ("Boothe"). Defendants have moved to suppress the "fruits" of the searches conducted by Senior Customs Inspector Gloria A. Lambert ("Lambert") on March 25,1993. The basis for the motions1 is that the searches were not justified by the "border *108search" exception to the Fourth Amendment.2 The government contends that the border search exception is applicable, and therefore neither probable cause nor reasonable suspicion was…