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WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 (UPI) -- The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Tuesday police can set up checkpoints to ask the public for information.
The Illinois Supreme Court -- citing a 2000 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Indianapolis vs. Edmond -- said police needed "reasonable suspicion" to make such stops constitutional.
The Illinois court overturned the conviction of a man who had been stopped at one such informational checkpoint and charged with drunken driving.
But in reversing the Illinois court, Stephen Breyer" class="tpstyle">Justice Stephen Breyer said, "We think the reason for the stop was reasonable, and therefore constitutional."
In the case, police had set up a traffic stop to ask motorists if they had information about the hit-and-run killing of a 70-year-old bicyclist. The killing occurred about a week before the stop was set up.
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