Sentence examples for drug checkpoints from inspiring English sources

The court could not ignore the "programmatic purpose" of the drug checkpoints, he insisted.

Axle-busting speed bumps slowed us in small towns, but we coasted through the drug checkpoints, the soldiers more interested in searching northbound traffic.

It noted that drug checkpoints, unlike sobriety stops, are not closely related to highway safety concerns, but instead serve a general interest in crime control.

The Clinton administration had entered the case on behalf of Indianapolis, and an assistant solicitor general, Patricia A. Millett, told the court that the automobile drug checkpoints could be viewed simply as adjuncts to the check for licenses and registrations that the city already conducted at the roadblocks.

Although the appeals court said that drug checkpoints are illegal, it held that in this case the initial cause for the vehicle search was legitimate because Stephen Roth, 60, threw a marijuana pipe from his vehicle and was stopped for littering.

Police can't pull a driver over merely for exiting before an announced (and illegal) drug checkpoint.

Rekowski said one tactic police use is to put up a sign for a "drug checkpoint" roadblock ahead.

Ten years after Sitz, in Indianapolis v. Edmond, 531 U.S. 32, this Court held that a drug interdiction checkpoint violated the Fourth Amendment.

The majority agreed with a ruling last year by the federal appeals court in Chicago, holding that the City of Indianapolis had violated the Fourth Amendment rights of motorists whom the police stopped at drug-interdiction checkpoints that were set up on city streets six times in 1998.

To determine the significance of Mad3p turnover, we analysed the consequences of MAD3 overexpression and found that four-fold overproduction of Mad3p led to chromosome bi-orientation defects and significant chromosome loss during recovery from anti-microtubule drug induced checkpoint arrest.

Nivolumab is one of a new class of antibody drugs called checkpoint inhibitors that help the immune system fight cancer.