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001531P.pdf   12/26/2000  USA  v.  Reynaldo Alverez
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  00-1531
   District of Nebraska   
   Criminal case - criminal law. While cutting open a tire may have 
   exceeded the scope of defendant's consent, the officers' own observations 
   gave them probable cause to believe there was contraband in the vehicle 
   and validated the search; state forfeiture proceedings do not create a 
   Double Jeopardy bar to federal prosecution; defendant was not entitled 
   to a minor participant reduction.