Bond+v.+United+States+(2000)

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 * Case:**


 * Steven Bond was riding the bus and the bus suddenly got stopped by the boarder control.


 * They were looking for illegal immigrants but instead, one of the patrol men saw Bond’s bag and decided to search it.


 * They found a hard brick like object wrapped up in duct tape inside a pair of pants.


 * The brick object was methamphetamine and Bond was arrested for possession meth. Bond’s case went to the Supreme Court because he thought it was a violation of his 4th Amendment.


 * The court decided it was a reasonable expectation under the 4th Amendment.


 * The reasons they decided it was reasonable was because Bond used a bag to hold the methamphetamine and placed it directly above him.


 * The other reason was because he told people not to touch his bag in a “exploratory manner”. This was not a violation of the 4th Amendment.

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