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Originally Posted by Tobra
No sir, 100% true. These checkpoints are often announced in advance, so you can choose a different route. On the roadside smog check I mentioned earlier, when I went home for lunch, I just turned right a block before it. This allowed me to avoid the possibility that I would be in the position where I would have to tell the Highway Patrolman to pound sand when he asked me to submit to the random harrasment.
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Sobriety checkpoints in general may be announced, but not necessarily with specifics as to their exact location. If you turn off the road with a sobriety checkpoint on a side street a block before, don't be surprised if an LEO comes after you and pulls you over (in his mind you've just given him probable cause by trying to avoid the checkpoint, even if you turned off the block before because that's the street on which you live). That's why I don't think the statement that you can avoid a checkpoint is true. I'm not saying they're Constitutional. I don't think they are. But to say that you can easily avoid them (as the supreme court article claims) isn't true.