Sobriety check points

[Sociopathicsteelerfan]

(09-10-2016, 10:55 AM)6andcounting Wrote: You are being detained any time a cop puts his lights on or instructs you to stop and pull over at a checkpoint. You certainly aren't free to just go and drive away at that point.

Probable cause is the standard needed for a search or an arrest.

Reasonable suspicion of a crime is the standard for being detained. The problem is you aren't suspected of anything when you're just being pulled over at random.

Not really interested in a semantic argument, hence my use of quotations around the word detained.  I could go into minutiae about how your definition of probable cause is incorrect but it's not really germane to the point being made.  You aren't being pulled over at random at a DUI checkpoint, there are criteria used for who is stopped and who is not, it's not just by instinct or sheer whim.