Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States

Elmore v. United States

Elmore v. United States, 447 U.S. 910 (1980)

Type
Opinion
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction
Federal
Date
1980-06-09
Topic
general

How later courts describe this case

  • asking for identity of man who made "strange moves around airport" was not Terry stop so as to require justifiable suspicion
  • retaining an individual’s ticket for more than a minimal amount of time or taking the ticket over to a ticket counter
  • noting seizure not merely result of adherence to drug courier profile
  • defendant proper ly convicted under § 924(c)(2) although not present at time drugs exchanged but only for receipt of money in payment
  • uncontra-dicted testimony of two bank employees that bank was insured sufficient to show insured status
  • relatively brief detention of individual in an airport on the basis of a reasonable suspicion of narcotics violation, was not an unconstitutional intrusion, the detention involving only a couple of minutes of questioning
  • uncontradicted testimony of two bank employees was sufficient

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C. A. 5th Cir. Certiorari denied.

Mr. Justice Brennan and Mr. Justice Marshall would grant certiorari.