Partin v. United States

How later courts describe this case

• defendant gave evasive and contradictory answers to custom inspector’s questions justifying decision to search her exterior body surface
• custom agent directing a passenger to remove an object from inside her person— without any physical contact — constituted a search of the person
• same judge may preside over a retrial after reversal; judge not disqualified because he presided over separate trial of a co-defendant
• reasonable suspicion standard adopted for customs searches as “functional equivalent” of border searches
• border search; reasonable suspicion justified on fewer objective facts than instant case
• suspect fit drug courier profile and gave evasive and contradictory answers
• “[A] witness may not claim the privilege out of fear that he will be prosecuted for perjury for what he is about to say, although he may claim the privilege if his new testimony might suggest that he had perjured himself in testifying on the same subject at a prior proceeding.”