787 So. 2d 208 - Rinaldo v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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1. “[T]he guidelines established specific duties and procedures to be followed by officers participating in the roadblock. The pointman’s job was to count and direct vehicles into the interview area in a nondiscretionary sequence, as provided in the written guidelines,.and as determined by Sergeant Saredy, depending on traffic conditions. The uniformed officers were briefed prior to the checkpoint and provided with a suggested script for questioning the drivers stopped in the roadblock. Once a vehicle was directed into the interview area, the officers were to briefly detain the driver to identify themselves, explain the purpose of the roadblock, and request a driver’s license and registration. They were to also observe the driver and check for signs of impairment, and if no impairment was detected, allow the driver to continue on his or her way. If it appeared to the officer that a driver was under the influence of alcohol, he was to direct the driver to an interview area for further DUI investigation.”

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

2. “Written guidelines should cover in detail the procedures which field officers are to follow at the roadblock. Ideally, these guidelines should set out with reasonable specificity procedures regarding the selection of vehicles, detention techniques, duty assignments, and the disposition of vehicles. Of course, if the guidelines fail to cover each of these matters they need not necessarily fail. Rather, courts should view each set of guidelines as a whole when determining the plan’s sufficiency.”

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

3. “A roadblock stop . . . is a seizure imposing a greater intrusion upon a citizen than a consensual encounter.”

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