Police assigned to an airport learned that Andrew Sokolow, had paid $2,100 for tickets from a roll of $20 bills, had just made a round-trip flight from Honolulu to Miami, stayed in Miami less than 48 hours with no checked luggage, looked nervous, and
had used a name that did not match the name under which his telephone number was listed. The officers stopped the man and detained him long enough to let a trained dog sniff his luggage. The dog alerted and during the search, they found several pounds of cocaine in his shoulder bag. The police used a drug courier profile in this case. How did the U.S. Supreme Court rule? A. The initial detention was illegal, thus based on the fruit of the poisonous tree doctrine, the seizure of drugs was illegal.
B. Drug courier profiles may justify an arrest.
C. The factors matching Sokolow to a drug courier profile were sufficient to justify his stop and subsequent search without a warrant.
D. The factors matching Sokolow to a drug courier profile were insufficient to justify his stop and the subsequent search without a warrant was invalid under the Fourth Amendment.
C
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