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OH2: Hand-to-hand buy weeks earlier required arrest warrant for when defendant was stopped on the street for a SI

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

Police had information for weeks of drug sales and made a warrantless arrest after a vehicle stop on "warrants" from the detective section. They clearly had time to get an arrest warrant. The search incident of the car was invalid. State v. Jones, 2009 Ohio 4606, 2009 Ohio App. LEXIS 3910 (2d Dist. September 4, 2009). Officers had PC to believe that defendant was involved in hand-to-hand drug sales with cars that drove up. State v. Lee, 2009 Ohio 4536, 2009 Ohio App. LEXIS 3828 (4th Dist. August 27, 2009).* Defendant was seized in her own home when the officer restricted her going to the bathroom to vomit and then watched her constantly and questioned her. State v. Martinez, 2009 Ore. App. LEXIS 1272 (September 2, 2009).* Police officer came on a traffic accident, and defendant at first admitted he had been driving, and the officer suspected he was DUI...continue to full post

Full post as published by Fourth Amendment on September 08, 2009 (boomark / email).