| United States v. Fuentes | |
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| Court | United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit |
| Full case name | United States of America v. Juan Carlos Fuentes |
| Submitted | December 10, 1996 |
| Decided | January 21, 1997 |
| Citations | 105 F.3d 487; 97 Cal. Daily Op. Serv. 463; 97 Daily Journal D.A.R. 72 |
| Court membership | |
| Judges sitting | John T. Noonan Jr., David R. Thompson, Andrew Jay Kleinfeld |
| Case opinions | |
| Majority | Kleinfeld, joined by a unanimous court |
| Laws applied | |
| U.S. Const. amend. IV | |
United States v. Fuentes, 105 F.3d 487 (9th Cir. 1997), [1] was a 1997 case in which the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled that "Mere refusal to consent to a stop or search does not give rise to reasonable suspicion or probable cause." The case involved a Terry stop at an airport of a suspected drug smuggler, and his subsequent flight attempt from Drug Enforcement Administration agents that, along with other suspicious factors, did give the officers probable cause to arrest him. [1]
