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Illinois v. Lidster, No. 02-1060 (U.S. Supreme Court) (540 U.S. 419; 124 S.Ct. 885) (January 13, 2004) (Justice Breyer)

Loaded on Dec. 1, 2003 published in Punch and Jurists December 22, 2003
Filed under: Punch And Jurists, Searches - Vehicle checkpoints.

Here a divided Court upheld as constitutionally reasonable the use of random roadblocks set up by the police as an investigational tool for the purpose of seeking information about a recent crime that occurred in the same general area as the roadblock.

In this case the Court considered whether the ...

 

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