Wurzinger v. Immigration & Naturalization Service

How later courts describe this case

• in addition to a threat to safety, the agents must be looking for dangerous people, not things
• possession conviction affirmed where the government circumstantially proved the existence of marijuana without the benefit of any physical evidence
• late joiners in ongoing drug smuggling scheme were properly convicted under indictment charging single conspiracy from the date the scheme was concocted
• arrest took place at 2:15 a. m. in an unfamiliar house located in a rural area; the arrestee had a known propensity for using confederates, and was being arrested for the heinous crime of soliciting the assassination of a federal judge