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STATE v. DOWNEY

945 S.W.2d 102 (1997)

STATE of Tennessee, Appellant/Cross-Appellee, v. Sarah Hutton DOWNEY, Appellee/Cross-Appellant.

Supreme Court of Tennessee, at Knoxville.

May 12, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Knox Walkup, Attorney General and Reporter, Michael E. Moore, Solicitor General, John P. Cauley, Assistant Attorney General, Nashville; Gary D. Gerbitz, District Attorney General, Charles A. Cerney, Jr., Assistant District Attorney General, Chattanooga (at Trial), for Appellant/Cross-Appellee.

Jerry H. Summers, Summers, McCrea & Wyatt, Chattanooga, for Appellee/Cross-Appellant.

Jonathan D. Cooper, Daniel & Oberman, Knoxville, for Amicus Curiae, Tennessee Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.

OPINION

ANDERSON, Justice.

We granted this appeal to answer a question of first impression: whether a sobriety roadblock at which police officers stop and question motorists whose prior conduct is unremarkable and free from suspicion, is an unreasonable seizure in violation of article I, section 7 of the Tennessee Constitution?

The defendant was arrested for driving under the influence after being stopped at a roadblock in Hamilton County, Tennessee...

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