U.S. v. ALDAZ

No. 90-30187.

921 F.2d 227 (1990)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Cedric ALDAZ, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided December 13, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nancy Shaw, Asst. Federal Public Defender, Anchorage, Alaska, for defendant-appellant.

Larry D. Card, Asst. U.S. Atty., Anchorage, Alaska, for plaintiff-appellee.

Before GOODWIN, WRIGHT and NOONAN, Circuit Judges.


EUGENE A. WRIGHT, Circuit Judge:

Aldaz appeals an order denying his motion to suppress. The district court denied his motion after finding that the initial seizure of his packages was supported by a reasonable articulable suspicion, and that the delay of his packages was not so unreasonably long as to violate the Fourth Amendment. We affirm.

BACKGROUND

On Saturday, October 8, 1988, Aldaz mailed an express delivery package from Emmonak, Alaska...

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