State v. Sims

*841DURHAM, Justice:

In July 1988, the Utah Highway Patrol and the Juab County Sheriff placed a roadblock on Interstate 15 near Nephi, Utah.1 Police established the roadblock to look for automobile license, registration, and equipment violations, as well as liquor and drug violations. Defendant Louie Edwin Sims was among those stopped. Upon smelling alcohol and seeing an “open” liquor bottle in the back seat, the officers asked Sims for permission to search the interior of his automobile and Sims consented. The officers then discovered remnants of two or three marijuana cigarettes and asked Sims…