# United States v. Frank Gunnar Williams

> Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · May 12, 1980 · 617 F.2d 1063

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9466599

## Case

- **Full name:** UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Frank Gunnar WILLIAMS, Defendant-Appellant
- **Court:** Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
- **Decided:** May 12, 1980
- **Citations:** 617 F.2d 1063; 1980 A.M.C. 2550; 1980 U.S. App. LEXIS 17636
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Anderson
- **Judges:** Coleman, Brown, Ainsworth, Godbold, Roney, Gee, Tjoflat, Hill, Fay, Rubin, Vance, Kravitch, Johnson, Garza, Henderson, Reavley, Politz, Hatchett, Anderson, Randall, Tate, Clark
- **Cited by:** 166 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- holding that United States jurisdiction “embraces offenses having an effect within its sovereign territory, even though the acts constituting the offense occur outside the territory”
- observing that constitutional protection against unreasonable search and seizure “extends only to the areas in which he has a legitimate expectation of privacy, including his person, his cabin and his personal effects”

## Opinion text

R. LANIER ANDERSON, Circuit Judge,
specially concurring:
I concur in the result reached by the majority, but for different reasons. I find *1100 that the actions of the Coast Guard in this case were authorized by § 89(a) and by Panama’s consent. I find no Fourth Amendment violation because there was probable cause to stop, board, and search the vessel, and' because the circumstances were exigent. I, therefore, do not reach the other issues discussed by my brothers.

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