Commonwealth v. Rodriguez

The Commonwealth appeals from an order suppressing evidence obtained from a seizure of the defendant’s motor vehicle at a drug interdiction roadblock. At issue is *578whether the same policy concerns that make sobriety checkpoints reasonable and therefore constitutional also exist with respect to drug interdiction roadblocks. A District Court judge concluded that, under the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution and art. 14 of the Massachusetts Declaration of Rights, the roadblock was unconstitutional. A single justice of this court allowed the Commonwealth’s application for an…