Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Beaman
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided August 15, 2005No. 34 WAP 2004PublishedCited by 31 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
Justice SAYLOR.
This appeal involves a facial constitutional challenge to the validity of police sobriety checkpoints. The primary question for resolution centers on whether roving police patrols are more efficient at identifying and apprehending drunk drivers, and, if so, whether this fatally undermines the constitutional validity of checkpoints due to the suspicionless stops that they entail.
On June 9, 2001, the Pittsburgh City Police Department conducted a sobriety checkpoint on Saw Mill Run Boulevard.1 *639Appellant was stopped at this checkpoint and was subsequently charged by…
2Cases cited28 opinions
- Terry v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
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- United States v. Brignoni-PonceSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
- Brown v. TexasSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- Skinner v. Railway Labor Executives' Assn.Supreme Court of the United States · 1989
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3Cited by31 opinions
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