2013 Ark. App. 177 - Jacobs v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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13 state decisions

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1. “A Fourth Amendment seizure occurs when a vehicle is stopped at a roadblock or checkpoint. The question then becomes whether such a seizure is reasonable under the Fourth Amendment. Where a vehicle stop is made on less than reasonable suspicion of criminal activity, its permissibility is determined by a balancing test. That test, as enunciated by the United States Supreme Court in Brown v. Texas, 443 U.S. 47, 50-51 [ 99 S.Ct. 2637 , 61 L.Ed.2d 357 ] (1979), requires us to consider three factors: (1) a weighing of the gravity 17of the public concerns served by the seizure; (2) the degree to which the seizure advances the public interest, and (3) the severity of the interference with individual liberty-”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 2013 Ark. App. 301 - Fisher v. State