State v. Camper

Citations

• 232 N.E.3d 419
• 2023 Ohio 4673

Syllabus

Judgment reversed. The trial court erred in denying appellant's motion to suppress evidence obtained from a warrantless search of a backpack. The record demonstrated that appellant did not abandon the backpack when he handed the backpack to his friend and asked him to hold it. Appellant did not disclaim ownership of the backpack prior to the officer's search, and appellant's subsequent statements at the police station did not mount to a voluntary act of abandonment. Because the officer's search of the backpack was not authorized by a warrant and because no exception to the warrant requirement justified the search, the evidence discovered during the search should have been suppressed pursuant to the exclusionary rule. The good-faith exception to the exclusionary rule was not applicable to the facts of the case.