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032321P.pdf   04/13/2004  United States  v.  J. Mendoza-Gonzalez
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  03-2321
   Southern District of Iowa   
   Criminal case - criminal law. Probable cause is not required to perform 
   a Level II safety inspection on an over-the-road truck, and it was 
   permissible for the officer to open the compartment under the sleeper 
   mattress to try find the safety restraints; pre-Miranda statement was 
   admissible, as officer's question as to why defendant needed to make a 
   phone call was not calculated to elicit defendant's incriminating response 
   that he was going to go to jail; evidence was sufficient to support drug 
   and conspiracy conviction; district court did not err in applying a two- 
   level enhancement for obstruction of justice based on defendant's perjury. 
   [PUBLISHED] [Murphy, Author]