U.S. v. WARD

No. 97-1810.

144 F.3d 1024 (1998)

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. KEVIN C. WARD, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided May 12, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Judith A. Stewart, Melanie C. Conour (argued), Office of the United States Attorney, Indianapolis, IN, fir Plaintiff-Appellee.

Mark C. Webb, Symmes, Voyles, Zann, Paul & Hogan, Indianapolis, IN, Roger Rosen (argued), Los Angeles, CA, for Defendant-Appellant.

Before POSNER, Chief Judge, and ROVNER and DIANE P. WOOD, Circuit Judges.


ILANA DIAMOND ROVNER, Circuit Judge.

Kevin Ward was arrested at the Greyhound bus terminal in Indianapolis when he attempted to claim a bag made to look like one that he had checked onto a bus in Los Angeles. As he soon discovered, the authorities had taken the real bag off the bus in Springfield, Missouri, subjected it to a canine sniff and, pursuant to a search warrant obtained after the dog "alerted" to the bag, opened it to discover a kilogram of cocaine and a...

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