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- Title: Montoya v. United States
- Author : United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
- Release Date : January 28, 1968
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 56 KB
Description
Maria Montoya and a male companion, Heriberto Lozano were arrested on April 2, 1967 in Dade County, Florida very shortly after they arrived from Colombia by air and were charged with importation and illegal purchase of some two thousand grams of cocaine, in violation of Title 26 U.S.Code Ann. § 4704(a). The parties were subsequently indicted; the trial court sustained a motion on behalf of Lozano to suppress the fruits of a search of the hotel room into which the parties had registered as man and wife but overruled the similar motion made on Miss Montoyas behalf; thereupon, the government dismissed the cases against him but proceeded to try the woman; during the course of the trial the fruits of the search of the room were introduced into evidence together with a confession which she made. She is here complaining of error in the trial courts overruling of the motion to suppress the packages of cocaine which were found in the hotel room and the trial courts order denying the motion to suppress her alleged confession.