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N.D.Tex.: Package that arrived in U.S. at Memphis airport was subjected to a valid border search

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

Defense counsel was not ineffective for not challenging the search of defendant’s packages that arrived at Memphis customs from Nigeria because it was a valid border search. Harkey v. United States, 2010 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 36960 (N.D. Tex. February 26, 2010).* Defense counsel was not ineffective for withdrawing motion to suppress that would not have won. The court of appeals erred in concluding defendant would have won on the motion, an apparent authority to consent issue. People v. Givens, 384 Ill. App. 3d 101, 892 N.E.2d 1098 (2008). People v. Givens, 2010 Ill. LEXIS 655 (April 15, 2010).* Defendant had no standing in the car he was arrested in as a passenger. People v. Johnson, 2010 Ill. LEXIS 657 (April 15, 2010), affg People v. Johnson, 387 Ill...continue to full post

Full post as published by Fourth Amendment on April 18, 2010 (boomark / email).