Showing posts with label checkpoints. Show all posts
Showing posts with label checkpoints. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Maybe their faces will turn up on milk cartons

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Neutral and detached magistrates are looking more and more like an endangered species -- particularly in Missouri, according to this piece ...
Thursday, March 24, 2011

Washington's latest assault on the Fourth Amendment

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The existence of sobriety checkpoints on our roadways is an affront to the Fourth Amendment. The very notion that it's okay for the poli...
Friday, January 14, 2011

Texas court gives checkpoints the thumbs-up

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Back in February 2006, Gerardo Lujan and a passenger were driving around when they came across a checkpoint set up for the (alleged) purpose...
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Monday, September 6, 2010

Constitution, be damned! Man the roadblocks!

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Never let it be said that Montgomery County Assistant District Attorney Warren Diepraam is one to let the law get in the way of his crusades...
Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Sobriety checkpoints: the new cash cow

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A study by the University of California's Investigative Reporting Program has found that sobriety checkpoints in California generate ab...
Monday, December 28, 2009

Motorists using Twitter to avoid checkpoints

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If local prosecutors want to use Twitter to try to humiliate motorists arrested on suspicion of driving while intoxicated, then why shouldn...
Monday, April 6, 2009

What happens at a DWI roadblock?

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"If you don't want to provide any tests, we're going to assume you're drunk." Think DWI checkpoints are a good idea? L...
Wednesday, April 1, 2009

More on DWI checkpoints

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Here are a few of the hidden gems in S.B. 289 which would authorize law enforcement agencies in Texas to set up temporary DWI checkpoints: 6...
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Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Probable cause? Who needs probable cause?

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Yesterday the State of Texas came one step closer to ending a 15-year old ban on DWI checkpoints with the passage of S.B. 298 which would a...
Monday, November 17, 2008

Update on DPS' call for driver's license checkpoints

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On Friday, under pressure from state legislators, the DPS withdrew its request for an Attorney General's opinion on the legality of set...
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Wednesday, November 12, 2008

DPS calls for driver's license checkpoints

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Last month I wrote about the DPS' new policy of not renewing or issuing new Texas drivers' licenses to anyone who can't prove t...