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UNITED STATES v. REEH

No. 84-5724.

780 F.2d 1541 (1986)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Richard Harry REEH, Arlington Douglas Sprecher, Theodore Duaine Jorden and Gary Michael Ryan, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

January 27, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carlton & Carlton, Philip Carlton, Jr., Miami, Fla., for defendants-appellants.

Joseph Buchanan, Linda Collins-Hertz, David Leiwant, Thomas Fitzgerald, Asst. U.S. Attys., Miami, Fla., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before VANCE and HATCHETT, Circuit Judges, and ATKINS, District Judge.

VANCE, Circuit Judge:

The defendants in this case were convicted on drug trafficking charges after the United States Coast Guard stopped and boarded their vessel in international waters and found it to contain a large amount of marijuana. Concluding that the Coast Guard's boarding of the vessel was reasonable under the fourth amendment, we affirm the convictions.

I.

On January 13, 1982, the Coast Guard cutter TAMAROA sighted a vessel in international...

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