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Practice question: Checkpoint Searches

Multiple Choice Hard

Practice question

At a bus checkpoint, officers invoke routine safety inspection while targeting one ethnicity, humiliating its members and offering no safety-related explanation. Does the checkpoint location itself satisfy Saluday?
  1. Yes, any checkpoint setting eliminates those conditions
  2. No; the manner, nondiscrimination and public-safety conditions remain
  3. Yes, discriminatory profiling is the required method
  4. No bus inspection is ever permitted
  5. The officers may privately declare every target guilty

Legal references

  • Saluday v. People, G.R.215305, April3 2018: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2018/apr2018/gr_215305_2018.html

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