State v. Beasley

Citations

• 2019 Ohio 3936

Syllabus

AUTOMOBILE – DRUGS – CONSTITUTIONAL LAW/CRIMINAL – SEARCH AND SEIZURE – INVENTORY SEARCH: In a drug-possession case, the trial court erred in overruling defendant's motion to suppress evidence, because the state failed to establish an inventory-search exception to the Fourth Amendment's warrant requirement where the state failed to show that the police officer was following an official inventory-search policy when he conducted the warrantless search of defendant's automobile: the state failed to establish the exception for an administrative search where no evidence was produced to show the search was conducted in good faith and in accordance with a reasonable standardized procedure or established routine.