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Barlow Challenges Search of Checked Baggage After a search of his checked bags last year at the San Francisco Airport resulted in misdeameanor drug charges, activist John Perry Barlow has fought in court to have the evidence thrown out, arguing it was seized in an illegal and unnecessary search. NPR's Larry Abramson reports.

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After a search of his checked bags last year at the San Francisco Airport resulted in misdeameanor drug charges, activist John Perry Barlow has fought in court to have the evidence thrown out, arguing it was seized in an illegal and unnecessary search. NPR's Larry Abramson reports.