People v. Scotland

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that “searches for certain administrative purposes without particularized suspicion of misconduct” are allowable “provided that those searches are appropriately limited”
• holding that a primary purpose of uncovering evidence of ordinary criminal activity contravenes the Fourth Amendment
• holding that a checkpoint program with an impermissible primary purpose violated the Fourth Amendment even though the program served lawful secondary purposes
• holding that a checkpoint program with an impermissible primary purpose violated the Fourth Amendment even though the program served lawful secondary purposes
• holding that suspicionless seizures at highway checkpoints, conducted for interdiction of illegal drugs, was \indistinguishable from [Indianapolis'] general interest in crime control\ and hence violative of Fourth Amendment
• holding that a roadway checkpoint randomly stopping motorists without individualized reasonable suspicion for the primary purpose of general crime control—interdicting illegal drugs—violated the Fourth Amendment

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).