finding unconstitutional a five-day delay in the delivery of a USPS parcel which was diverted from Chicago to St. Louis
How later courts described this case
- finding unconstitutional a five-day delay in the delivery of a USPS parcel which was diverted from Chicago to St. Louis
- suspected postal package was sent from Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport to a postal inspector in Missouri for a canine sniff; court held the movement was unreasonable because the ensuing delay in delivery could have been reduced if the police would have acted more diligently in conducting the test in Chicago
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The opinion
JUSTICE BILANDIC, specially concurring:
I agree with the analysis and the result reached in part II of the majority opinion.
Because the detention and investigation of the defendants’ package was not reasonable under the fourth amendment, the defendants’ motions to suppress must be granted and their arrests quashed. This holding is dispositive of this appeal.
There is no need to resolve the issues in part I of the majority opinion.