221918P.pdf   07/11/2023  United States  v.  Andrew Pierson
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  22-1918
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas - Central   
   [PUBLISHED] [Smith, Author, with Stras and Kobes, Circuit Judges] 
   Criminal case - Criminal law and Sentencing. With respect to Mexican 
   authorities' actions in seizing and searching defendant prior to bringing 
   him to the U.S. - Mexican border, the conduct did not shock the judicial 
   conscience, and the evidence seized by those authorities was admissible; 
   on this record, the district court did not err in declining to extend the 
   exclusionary rule to the alleged conduct of the Mexican authorities; U.S. 
   law enforcement was not engaged in a joint venture with Mexican law 
   authorities warranting extension of the exclusionary rule to his seizure 
   and subsequent search in Mexico; the district court did not err in 
   determining that defendant's Miranda waiver was voluntary, knowing, and 
   intelligent; due process challenge rejected as there was no evidence that 
   U.S. authorities tortured defendant, knew of any torture, or paid Mexican 
   officials to carry it out; the district court did not abuse its discretion 
   in imposing an upward variance, and defendant's sentence was not 
   substantively unreasonable.