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011665P.pdf   02/07/2002  United States  v.  Augustine DeMoss
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  01-1665
   District of Minnesota   
   Criminal case - criminal law. Drug interdiction officer did not 
   seize package when he lifted it from the Federal Express 
   conveyor belt at the Minneapolis airport, and he did not need 
   reasonable suspicion to remove the package from the belt; 
   sender had no legitimate expectation that the package would 
   not be observed while it was being shipped, and act of lifting 
   the package to look at the airbill was an insignificant 
   interference with the normal processing of the package; at 
   the point the package was seized, the officer had reasonable 
   suspicion that the package contained drugs, and he could 
   subject it to a canine sniff; order suppressing search 
   vacated, and case remanded for further proceedings. 
   Concurrence by Chief Judge Hansen.