State v. Barnes

Citations

• 2024 Ohio 5865

Syllabus

Motion to Suppress; Inevitable Discovery; Mootness; Dog Sniff; Reasonable Suspicion. The purpose of a protective pat-down of a person's outer clothing is to ensure officer safety, not to locate evidence of a crime. The State argued that the contraband would have been inevitably discovered after the discovery of drug paraphernalia in the vehicle during a resulting search incident to arrest. However, the police did not arrest the defendant after discovering the drug paraphernalia but released him. For this reason, the State failed to establish the contraband would have been inevitably discovered.