devi@pur-phy.UUCP (Devi Prasad) (06/26/84)
RE: Recent article on roadblocks on Indiana Roads I remeber having read a U.S. Supreme Court decision ( way back around 1970 - when I had a mild interest in law) that said roadblocks were not illegal search so long as every car was stopped or something to that effect. I remember the dissenting opinion in that case which siad that the court was treating the drivers as sheep who wont be scared when stopped in groups but would be when stopped alone! However that case I think did not deal with drunken driving but with some other aspect of motorvehicle safety. (I will try to dig up the exact case and if anyone is interested post it later) -devi @ pur-phy (Devi Prasad)
kds@intelca.UUCP (Ken Shoemaker) (06/29/84)
Most places probably don't have this problem, but here roadblocks
are routinely put on roads to cover two situations: On Interstate
5 down somewhere around San Clemente the immigration service sets
them up to make sure no one is sneaking (?) illegals up to Los
Angeles and points beyond. The other place is on most roads entering
the state there are agricultural inspections stations to make sure
that no one tries to drive into the state with some apples, or some
such nonsense. Back in med-fly days they also had them set up at
the quaranteen boundaries to make sure no one tried to get out with
any apples (read apples == most any kind of fruit).
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