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LITTLE v. STATE

Nos. 158, 159, September Term, 1983.

300 Md. 485 (1984)

479 A.2d 903

MICHAEL KEITH LITTLE v. STATE OF MARYLAND. DANIEL LENWOOD ODOM v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

August 21, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John L. Kopolow, Asst. Public Defender, Baltimore (Alan H. Murrell, Public Defender, Baltimore, on the brief), for appellant.

Deborah K. Chasanow, Asst. Atty. Gen., Baltimore (Stephen H. Sachs, Atty. Gen., Baltimore, on the brief), for appellee.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., ELDRIDGE, COLE, DAVIDSON, RODOWSKY and COUCH, JJ., and JAMES C. MORTON, Jr., Associate Judge of the Court of Special Appeals (retired) Specially Assigned.

MURPHY, Chief Judge.

This case concerns the legality of police roadblocks established in furtherance of a state operated sobriety checkpoint program to detect and deter drunk driving.

I.

As part of an effort to stop drunk driving, the Maryland State Police augmented its conventional enforcement methods by erecting systematic roadblocks on state roads having high alcohol related accident rates. The sobriety checkpoints were established pursuant to...

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