UNITED STATES v. WESTERBANN-MARTINEZ

No. 77-CR-286.

435 F.Supp. 690 (1977)

UNITED STATES of America v. Carlos WESTERBANN-MARTINEZ and Luis Angel Torres, Defendants.

United States District Court, E. D. New York.

July 19, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David G. Trager, U. S. Atty., E.D.N.Y. by Richard S. Berne, Asst. U. S. Atty., for U. S.

James V. McGovern, New York City, for defendant Westerbann-Martinez.

Marion Seltzer, Fed. Defender Unit, The Legal Aid Society, Brooklyn, N.Y., for defendant Torres.


COSTANTINO, District Judge.

It was a maxim with Foxey ... "Always suspect everybody." Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop. (1841)

The motions to suppress in this case provide an opportunity to re-emphasize that something more than reliance on "Foxey's maxim" is necessary to sustain the propriety of an investigative stop.

American Airlines Flight 492 originates in Chicago and terminates in New York...

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