State of Illinois
Petitioner
Gary Feinerman, Counsel of RecordOn August 23, 1997, at around 12:15 a.m., a fatal hit-and-run accident occurred on North Avenue in the town of Lombard, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. In an attempt to locate eyewitnesses to the crime, Lombard police set up a roadblock on the same road at the same time of night a week later. All eastbound traffic was stopped, and a police officer handed drivers a flier and asked them if they had any information that would assist them in solving the case. Although the roadblock was not intended to be a sobriety checkpoint, Detective Ray…
