{"id":46653,"date":"2021-01-03T00:00:24","date_gmt":"2021-01-03T05:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=46653"},"modified":"2021-01-01T08:23:24","modified_gmt":"2021-01-01T13:23:24","slug":"nc-trial-court-erred-in-not-considering-brown-factors-in-considering-reasonableness-of-a-checkpoint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=46653","title":{"rendered":"NC: Trial court erred in not considering <em>Brown<\/em> factors in considering reasonableness of a checkpoint"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cDefendant concedes and we agree that the trial court correctly determined that the checkpoint had a legitimate primary purpose. The trial court found that the purpose of the checkpoint was to check \u2018each driver stopped for a valid driver&#8217;s license and evidence of impairment[,]\u2019 both of which are lawful programmatic purposes. See Edmond, 531 U.S. at 37-38, 121 S. Ct. at 452. However, the trial court did not adequately weigh the three Brown factors and thus could not assess whether the public interest in this checkpoint outweighed its infringement on Defendant&#8217;s Fourth Amendment privacy interests.\u201d The constitutionality of a state statute isn\u2019t preserved. <a href=\"https:\/\/appellate.nccourts.org\/opinions\/?c=2&amp;pdf=38821\">State v. Cobb<\/a>, 2020 N.C. App. LEXIS 963 (Dec. 31, 2020).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cDefendant concedes and we agree that the trial court correctly determined that the checkpoint had a legitimate primary purpose. The trial court found that the purpose of the checkpoint was to check \u2018each driver stopped for a valid driver&#8217;s license &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=46653\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chekpoints"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46654,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46653\/revisions\/46654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}