Can an Equipment Violation be Used to Conduct a Pre-Textual Traffic Stop?
Not according to the Eighth District. Would the Supreme Court of Ohio Agree? Th [...]
Can a Convicted Felon Regain his Firearms Rights?
Relief from a firearms disability is therefore granted on a conviction-by-convi [...]
When Can a Traffic Stop be Extended to Verify a Driver’s License After the Original Violation is Dispelled?
What’s more, Mr. Fips’s failure to produce a driver’s license gave Officer Rose [...]
Can Menacing by Stalking Be Proven Without Explicit Threats or Physical Violence?
Yes! Mr. Crawl’s conduct far exceeded the behavior set forth in his proposition [...]
Is Preparing Methamphetamine for Sale in a House ‘Within the Vicinity of a Juvenile’?
[A] reasonable juror would be able to conclude that the first floor of the hous [...]
Is a Vehicle Passenger Seized When a Vehicle is Lawfully Stopped by Law Enforcement?
Detective Martens’s seizure of Hale was not an unconstitutional investigatory s [...]
Supreme Court of Ohio Limits the Use of Body Camera Video in Court when the Victim Fails to Appear
We therefore conclude that B.B.’s statements to Officer Soucek captured by the [...]
The Single Purpose Container Doctrine Does Not Apply to a Multi-Purpose Container
The single-purpose-container exception did not authorize the police to search M [...]
Can a Traffic Stop be Extended to Assure the Driver is Licensed?
[W]e simply conclude that when an officer permissibly engages in a traffic stop [...]
Can a Law Enforcement Officer Continue a Traffic Stop if He Discovers the Reason for the Stop was Incorrect?
[B]ecause the police officer no longer maintained a reasonable suspicion that M [...]