Court Opinion

ID: 9461079
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 22:05:20.50893+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:36:52.978696
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HUFSTEDLER, Circuit Judge
(dissenting) :
I would grant the petition for rehearing. The facts that appellant’s automobile had a heavy duty suspension system, a large trunk, and appeared to be heavily loaded are not enough to create a founded suspicion that criminal activity was afoot. There is even less here to justify the stop than in United States v. Martinez-Tapia (9th Cir. 1974) 499 F.2d 1244. Moreover, I am unable to reconcile the rationale of Almeida-San-chez v. United States (1973) 413 U.S. 266, 93 S.Ct. 2535, 37 L.Ed.2d 596, forbidding border agents on roving patrol to stop and search vehicles without probable cause, with the line of cases typified by United States v. Bugarin-Casas (9th Cir. 1973) 484 F.2d 853, permitting roving border patrol agents to stop vehicles under circumstances short of probable cause.