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CA6: Drug courier profile detention unlawful

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

Officer's drug courier profile detention was unreasonable--none of the officer's justifications for reasonable suspicion contained any weight at all: People driving from California, the most populous state cannot be assumed to be drug couriers, the driver's nervousness was based on his fears the passenger might have been an illegal because of the officer's aggressive questioning, and the nature of the vehicle being driven (a 1996 Mercury Navigator in 2006) were all essentially meaningless. United States v. Urrieta, 2008 U.S. App. LEXIS 5844. 2008 FED App. 0117P (6th Cir. March 20, 2008) (2-1). Officers had probable cause to believe that defendant illegally possessed a firearm based on the known facts and defendant's criminal history. United States v...continue to full post

Full post as published by Fourth Amendment on March 21, 2008 (boomark / email).