UNITED STATES v. WRIGHT

No. 72-3137 Summary Calendar.

476 F.2d 1027 (1973)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Belmer Lewis WRIGHT, Jr., Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied March 28, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sam Houston Clinton, Jr., Austin, Tex., for defendant-appellant.

Anthony J. P. Farris, U. S. Atty., James R. Gough, Asst. U. S. Atty., Houston, Tex., Dan Alfaro, Asst. U. S. Atty., Laredo, Tex., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before JOHN R. BROWN, Chief Judge, and DYER and SIMPSON, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM:

On appeal from a conviction of possession with intent to distribute 319 pounds of marijuana, a violation of 21 U.S.C.A. § 841, Appellant Wright raises only one contention—that the search of his vehicle which produced the voluminous quantities of the forbidden weed was violative of the guarantees of the Fourth Amendment, even under the broad "border search" rubric. We hold that the instant search falls well within the bounds of the border search...

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