United States v. Ricardo Palos-Marquez

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,  No. 08-50498 Plaintiff-Appellee, v.  D.C. No. 3:08-cr-00547-JM-

RICARDO IVAN PALOS-MARQUEZ,

OPINION

Defendant-Appellant.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of California Jeffrey T. Miller, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted November 4, 2009—Pasadena, California

Filed January 19, 2010

Before: Mary M. Schroeder, Marsha S. Berzon, and Sandra S. Ikuta, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Ikuta

1249 1252 UNITED STATES v. PALOS-MARQUEZ

COUNSEL

Erick L. Guzman, Federal Defenders of San Diego, Inc., San Diego, California, counsel for the appellant.

David L. Katz, Office of the United States Attorney, San Diego, California, counsel for the appellee.

OPINION

IKUTA, Circuit Judge:

We must decide whether an in-person tip by an unidentified informant provided reasonable suspicion to support border patrol agents’ investigatory stop of a vehicle. We hold that such a tip can have significant indicia of reliability, and in light of the totality of the circumstances, there was…