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The Coast Guard cutter Reliance encountered a British flagged vessel, the Persistence, on the high seas and obtained consent from the British government to board and search it. When Coast Guard members boarded and opened the main hatch, they discovered it was filled with bales of marijuana. The defendants, US citizens who were the crew of the Persistence, were charged with drug crimes. They moved to suppress the evidence, arguing the boarding and search violated a treaty and the Fourth Amendment. The court

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