| Court: | US Supreme Court |
| Facts: | Indianapolis is running vehicle checkpoints for drug interdictions. They catch Edmond. |
| Posture: | Drugs admitted at trial, appeals court reverses. Appeal. |
| Issue: | Are highway checkpoints whose primary purpose is narcotics interdiction constitutional? |
| Holding: | No. |
| Rule: | If the primary purpose of a roadblock is to uncover evidence of ordinary criminal wrongdoing, it is unconstitutional. |
| Reasoning: | Just running a sniffy-dog around the outside of the car doesn't transform a search into a seizure. The point is that the threat here (drugs), while grave, regular law enforcement requires reasonable individualized suspicion for siezing people. |
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