Category Archives: Tipsters

On May 24, 2012, a driver was cited for an OVI, in violation of R.C. 4511.19(A)(1)(a). The driver entered a plea of not guilty at his arraignment and then filed a motion to suppress all the evidence which was acquired from the stop and subsequent arrest. A hearing on the motion to suppress was held… Read More »

Before initiating a stop, a “police officer must be able to point to specific and articulable facts which, taken together with rational inferences from those facts, reasonably warrant [the] intrusion.” Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1, 21, 88 S.Ct. 1868, 20 L.Ed.2d 889 (1968). Determination of whether reasonable suspicion exists in any given case requires… Read More »