Supreme Court Rules Roadblocks OK to hunt down Criminals., page 1
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Topic started on 13-1-2004 @ 12:34 PM by BlackJackal


The Supreme Court ruled today that police may setup road blocks to help them gain information on crimes that have been commited. The court ruling does not include any time limit on when the roadblock can be setup causing some to beleive the ruling to be a striping away of rights.

News.yahoo.com

Three justices expressed concerns the ruling could open up motorists to police interference without yielding useful information about crimes.


"There is a valid and important distinction" between seizing a person to determine whether he or she has committed a crime and seizing a person to ask whether that person "has any information about an unknown person who committed a crime a week earlier," wrote Justice John Paul Stevens joined by Justices David H. Souter and Ruth Bader Ginsburg .


The case was a follow-up to a 2000 Supreme Court ruling that roadblocks intended for drug searches are an unreasonable invasion of privacy under the Constitution.


The purpose of the ruling is to allow police to gain information that is voluntered concerning crimes however, it could be turned around on motorists that do not volunteer information as obstruction of justice.

[Edited on 13-1-2004 by BlackJackal]
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