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U.S. v. XAVIER

No. 02-1586.

310 F.3d 1025 (2002)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Franklin XAVIER, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided November 19, 2002.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael Jude Quinley (argued), Office of the U.S. Atty., Crim. Div., Fairview Heights, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

James A. Gomric (argued), Belleville, IL, for Defendant-Appellant.

Before POSNER, EASTERBROOK, and EVANS, Circuit Judges.

TERENCE T. EVANS, Circuit Judge.

What we have here is trouble on Con Air. Franklin Xavier was a federal prisoner about to be transported from the federal penitentiary in Marion, Illinois, to the federal prison in Leavenworth, Kansas, on a federal prisoner transport plane. The federal officers in charge of his transfer attempted to search his hair, which he wore in dreadlocks, a common hairstyle in his home in St. Croix, United States Virgin Islands. Xavier refused...

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