UNITED STATES v. MOSQUERA-RAMIREZ

No. 83-5006.

729 F.2d 1352 (1984)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Luis Fernando MOSQUERA-RAMIREZ, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

April 16, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles G. White, Kenneth E. Cohen, Asst. Federal Public Defenders, Miami, Fla., for defendant-appellant.

Stanley Marcus, U.S. Atty., Linda Collins Hertz, James G. McAdams, James R. Gailey, Asst. U.S. Attys., Miami, Fla., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before RONEY, HATCHETT and ANDERSON, Circuit Judges.


RONEY, Circuit Judge:

Today we have decided that an x-ray search performed at the border is reasonable if based on the same amount of suspicion required for a strip search. United States v. Vega-Barvo, 729 F.2d 1341 (11th Cir.1984). This case presents the issue of whether it violates the Fourth Amendment to detain a person who refuses a reasonable x-ray search until a bowel movement...

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