{"id":9126,"date":"2014-02-14T10:32:26","date_gmt":"2013-07-24T08:49:31","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-24T08:49:31","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=9126","title":{"rendered":"CA5: Defendant consented to strip search at Customs despite being intoxicated and incoherent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The evidence supported the district court\u2019s conclusion defendant consented to a body cavity search at the Eagle Pass checkpoint, despite her being intoxicated and incoherent. She was cooperative throughout. She claimed she had a tampon in, and pulled down her pants and showed the string to the officer, but the officer concluded it connected to something else. Defendant then conceded it was a condom with heroin. Defendant was known to Customs generally because of prior involvement with a body cavity smuggling ring. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ca5.uscourts.gov\/opinions\/unpub\/12\/12-50190.0.wpd.pdf\">United States v. Martinez<\/a>, 537 Fed. Appx. 340 (5th Cir. 2013).<\/p>\n<p>Officers had probable cause based on a CI\u2019s corroborated and detailed information that a van would show up for a meth deal. Defendant was a passenger and lacked standing. United States v. Verduzco-Morett, 2013 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 102654 (W.D. Mo. January 17, 2013).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=9126\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}