{"id":7628,"date":"2012-12-03T08:09:36","date_gmt":"2012-08-24T08:26:32","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-24T08:26:32","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=7628","title":{"rendered":"SC: After-the-fact justification of effectiveness of roadblock good enough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After-the-fact DL roadblock empirical data was good enough to support the roadblock under <a href=\"http:\/\/scholar.google.com\/scholar_case?case=17131345014686603365&amp;q=brown+v.+texas&amp;hl=en&amp;as_sdt=2,4\">Brown<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/scholar.google.com\/scholar_case?case=11348246873623439918&amp;q=sitz&amp;hl=en&amp;as_sdt=2,4\">Sitz<\/a>. Each stop lasted under a minute. Here, defendant had methamphetamine in plain view when stopped. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.judicial.state.sc.us\/opinions\/HTMLFiles\/COA\/5025.pdf\">State v. Vickery<\/a>, 399 S.C. 507, 732 S.E.2d 218 (App. 2012):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The purpose of the empirical data on the effectiveness is to be able to balance the effectiveness of the checkpoint with the other two prongs set forth in Brown, (1) the gravity of the public interest served by the seizure and (3) the severity of the interference with individual liberty. Here, the point of the checkpoint was to prevent traffic offenses and people driving without a license. This serves the public interest in that traffic violations and people driving without a license can cause injury to others. The severity with individual liberty was low in that the stops were marked so drivers could anticipate it and each stop lasted under a minute, if there was no violation. Weighing those two factors with the data provided as to the second factor, effectiveness, the license checkpoint did not violate the Fourth Amendment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=7628\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}