| bgcolor="6699FF" | United States v. Place |
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Supreme Court of the United States |
bgcolor="6699FF" | Argued March 2, 1983
Decided June 20, 1983 |
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| valign="top"|Full case name: | valign="top"|''United States v. Raymond J. Place |
| valign="top"|Citations: | valign="top"|462 U.S. 696; 103 S. Ct. 2637; 77 L. Ed. 2d 110; 1983 U.S. LEXIS 74; 51 U.S.L.W. 4844 |
| valign="top"|Prior history: | valign="top"|Defendant's motion to suppress denied, 498 F. Supp. 1217 (E.D.N.Y. 1980); reversed, 660 F.2d 44 (2nd. Cir. 1981); certiorari granted, 457 U.S. 1104 (1982). |
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| bgcolor="6699FF" | Holdings |
| Police may temporarily seize suspicious luggage if they have a reasonable, articulable suspicion that it contains narcotics. Allowing a narcotics-detecting police dog to sniff the luggage to confirm or dispel that suspicion is not a "search" within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment. The length of time that had elapsed between the seizure and the dog sniff in this case was longer than permissible under the circumstances, and was thus unreasonable. Second Circuit affirmed. |
| bgcolor="6699FF" | Court membership |
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| Chief Justice: Warren E. Burger |
| Associate Justices:William J. Brennan, Byron R. White, Thurgood Marshall, Harry Blackmun, William H. Rehnquist, John Paul Stevens, Sandra Day O'Connor, Lewis F. Powell | } |
| bgcolor="6699FF" | Case opinions |
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| Majority by: O'Connor |
| Joined by: Burger, White, Rehnquist, Powell, Stevens |
| Concurrence by: Brennan |
| Joined by: Marshall |
| Concurrence by: Blackmun |
| Joined by: Marshall | } |
| bgcolor="6699FF" | Laws applied |
| U.S. Const. amend. IV |