Criminal – Police Checkpoint – Outstanding Warrant – Search Incident

By Deborah Elkins
Published: May 12, 2008

Police who stopped defendant at a roadblock set up to check the driver’s license and motor vehicle registration of every vehicle that passed through an intersection in Martinsville, and who discovered an outstanding warrant for defendant’s arrest, could lawfully seize the cocaine found in a search incident to the arrest, the Court of Appeals holds. The ...

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