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021169P.pdf 10/01/2002 USA v. Michael Knight
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 02-1169
Northern District of Iowa
Criminal case - criminal law. State trooper conducting a
North American Standard Level III inspection of
defendant's truck exceeded the scope of the regulatory
search when he searched defendant's briefcase; while
the trooper may have had been justified in believing
defendant's paperwork was not in order, he did not
have a reasonable basis for searching defendant's
personal belongings; dissent by Judge Murphy.