Jimmie E. Vandergrift and Dorothy E. Vandergrift v. Fort Pierce Memorial Hospital

Robert George Cardwell, Jr. entered a plea of nolo contendere to trafficking in marijuana, reserving the right to appeal the trial courts denial of his motion to suppress. He contends that the evidence seized as the result of a warrantless police roadblock set up to apprehend drug traffickers by stopping cars without any articulable suspicion of illegal activity should be suppressed because the roadblock constituted an illegal search and seizure, in violation of the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution. The facts of this case demonstrate that the seizure and subsequent search were reasonable and therefore not in violation of the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution. We affirm the trial courts denial of the motion to suppress.