A split state Supreme Court has ruled that sheriffs and their deputies have no authority to independently set up and conduct suspicionless DUI checkpoints.
In Commonwealth v. Marconi, the six-justice court ruled 5-1 in the result, affirming a Superior Court decision that held that while sheriffs and their deputies have common-law powers to arrest, they do not have the power to conduct suspicionless DUI roadblocks, which have sensitive constitutional implications.
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