An Oregon Court of Appeals panel has come to the conclusion that a U.S, postal inspector and Portland law officials had no legal power to intercept a persons package with only using hunched and a police K-9’s reaction after sniffing the package.
The Oregon gives details about Wednesday’s ruling is looking to affect a long-standing system of having postal workers and two law officials pulling aside and inspecting express mail packages at a Portland International Airport postal cargo center without first having a warrant to proceed with a legal search.
Back in 2012, law officials were interested in one package in part because it bore a written address from hand to a pseudonym and a narcotics detection K-9 found it intriguing. Eventually, the owner of the package allowed the authorities to search the package and his bedroom, where court documents say they discovered a heavy amount of cannabis.
The man’s attorney put up a strong argument that the evidence should be silenced. A Circuit Court Judge discovered that officers had no probable cause to remove the package from the mail stream. The appeals court backed that decision.
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