UNITED STATES v. SANDERS

No. 148, Docket 81-1191.

663 F.2d 1 (1981)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Charles SANDERS, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided October 23, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Phylis Skloot Bamberger, Federal Defender Services Unit, The Legal Aid Society, New York City, for appellant.

Brian E. Maas, Asst. U. S. Atty., New York City (Edward R. Korman, U. S. Atty., for the Eastern District of New York, Jane Simkin Smith, Asst. U. S. Atty., New York City, of counsel), for appellee.

Before OAKES and MESKILL, Circuit Judges, and BLUMENFELD, District Judge.


OAKES, Circuit Judge:

This Fourth Amendment case involves the narrow circumstances of a border search of a reentering citizen's artificial limb. A motion to suppress the fruits of the search — 514 grams of cocaine — was denied by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, Eugene H. Nickerson, Judge, and a plea of guilty to charges of importation, 21 U.S.C. §§ 952(a) and 960(a)(1), was taken. Appellant reserved the...

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