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From: parnass@ihuxf.UUCP (Bob Parnass, AJ9S)
Newsgroups: net.auto,net.legal
Subject: Re: Roadblocks
Message-ID: <2277@ihuxf.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 25-Jun-84 12:40:16 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 25 12:40:16 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 28-Jun-84 01:23:34 EDT
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Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL
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> 
> Beginning next week, Indiana State Troopers, county sherrifs and state
> Conservation Department police will be manning roadblocks in a five county
> area: Looking for drunk drivers.
> 
> Times and locations of the roadblocks will not be made public (as are radar
> locations), and each roadblock will attempt to stop all vehicles that pass
> the checkpoint.  Officers will then "check for signs of alcohol in the car
> or truck and for behavior that indicates a driver might have been drinking."
> 
> Someone driving drunk will undergo a field examination with an "Alco-sensor"
> device...and the rest you probably know.
> 
> Is this not illegal search and seizure?  Is this not unconstitutional?
> 

	Your article doesn't say that car searches or siezures will be made,
	but from your own quote, it sounds like the officers will only
	perform a breath analysis on drivers if they find "probable cause".

	Open liquor containers in plain view constitute "signs of alcohol
	in the car."

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