UNITED STATES v. McDANIEL

No. 71-2810.

463 F.2d 129 (1972)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Richard McDANIEL, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied June 15, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald R. Scoggins, Dallas, Tex., for defendant-appellant.

Anthony J.P. Farris, U.S. Atty., James R. Gough, Ronald J. Waska, Anthony C. Aguilar, Asst. U.S. Attys., Houston, Tex., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before WISDOM, GOLDBERG and CLARK, Circuit Judges.


GOLDBERG, Circuit Judge:

This is a case allegedly under the aegis of the "border search" doctrine, whose borders have never been geodetically defined and whose legal undulations are manifold. Transits and other paraphernalia, both legal and paralegal, lead to no certain perimeters. Given precedential latitude and constitutional longitude, we conclude that the search under the spotlight in this case came within the legal confines of a border search and within the constitutional...

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