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COMMONWEALTH v. RODRIGUEZ

430 Mass. 577 (2000)

COMMONWEALTH v. HECTOR RODRIGUEZ.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Hampden.

January 18, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas H. Townsend, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Geri Laventis for the defendant.

Carol A. Donovan, Committee for Public Counsel Services, & William C. Newman, for American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts & another, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: MARSHALL, C.J., ABRAMS, LYNCH, GREANEY, & IRELAND, JJ.

ABRAMS, J.

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 whether 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...

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