Montoya's lawyer argued that this constituted unreasonable search and seizure
and that her arrest and conviction should be set aside. There was, he said, no direct
evidence that would have led the officials to suspect cocaine smuggling. The government
argued that the arrest had followed from a set of odd facts leading to reasonable suspicion
that something was amiss.
You be the judge: Was Montoya's arrest based on a search-and-seizure incident that
violated the Fourth Amendment?