Indianapolis+v.+Edmond

FACTS: The city of Indianapolis made check points for vehicles to be searched for drugs. They were suppost to be just normal check points but a search dog would smell around the car for two minutes. If one spot was smelled for a good amount of the two minutes they would search the car for the drugs. James Edmond and Joell Palmer both were stopped and filed a lawsuit saying that the roadblocks violated the Fourth Amendment and the search and seizure provision of the Indiana Constitution. The lawsuit was denied stating that the checkpoint program did not violate the Fourth Amendment.

OPINION: Sandra Day O'Connor: "We cannot sanction stops justified only by the generalized and ever-present possibility that interrogation and inspection may reveal that any given motorist has committed some crime."