294 Ga. App. 142 - Britt v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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6 state decisions

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1. “the evidence showed that the supervisory officer was on the scene at the roadblock’s inception, [cit.] that the field officers did not commence the roadblock on their own initiative, and that the time at which [Phillips] was stopped was generally consistent with the time for the roadblock authorized by the supervisory officer. Accordingly, even accepting that [Phillips] was stopped at [12:55 p.m.], he was not stopped at a roadblock unauthorized [or not yet established] by supervisory personnel.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Phillips v. State

2. “(1) the decision to implement the roadblock was made by supervisory personnel at “the programmatic level,” rather than officers in the field, for a legitimate primary purpose; (2) all vehicles, rather than random vehicles, are stopped; (3) the delay to motorists is minimal; (4) the roadblock is well identified as a police checkpoint; and (5) the screening "officer has adequate training to make an initial determination as to which motorists should be given field sobriety tests.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 306 Ga. App. 531 - Rappley v. State