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UNITED STATES v. RIVERA

No. 80-1115.

654 F.2d 1048 (1981)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Ricardo E. RIVERA, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit. Unit A

September 2, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William C. Bryson, Caroline Heck, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for plaintiff-appellant.

Ernest W. Kuehne, Dallas, Tex., for Baker, Pugh, Hunter and Maull.

Tim Banner, Dallas, Tex., for Clifton Blair.

Billy Ravkind, Dallas, Tex., for Billy Ray Redmon.

Before RUBIN and GARZA, Circuit Judges, and SUTTLE, District Judge.

SUTTLE, District Judge.

This appeal involves review of a district court's order granting the appellees' motion to suppress evidence of core samples of marijuana cut out from sealed black plastic garbage bags. Agents of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) seized these bags in the early morning hours of September 22, 1979, from vehicles being driven or occupied by various of the appellees after they had departed from a 55-acre farm located in Kaufman County, Texas...

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