MORALES v. STATE

Nos. 80-248, 80-249.

407 So.2d 321 (1981)

Zeinida MORALES, Oscar Blanco, Livio Blanco and Humberto Martinez, Appellants, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

December 15, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Greene & Cooper and Sharon L. Wolfe, Carol King Guralnick, Miami, for appellants.

Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., and Steven R. Jacob, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.

Before HUBBART, C.J., and BASKIN and DANIEL S. PEARSON, JJ.


HUBBART, Chief Judge.

The central question presented for review is whether a warrantless search of the hold of a person's sea-going vessel and the subsequent seizure of marijuana contained therein conducted by U.S. Customs officials in the territorial waters of the United States [i.e., within the seas extending three nautical miles from the U.S. coastline], after the said vessel has recently entered such waters from the high seas [i.e., the seas outside the three...

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