State v. Currie

Citations

• 2025 Ohio 670

Syllabus

FOURTH AMENDMENT — SEARCH AND SEIZURE — REASONABLE GROUNDS — PROBATION — ANONYMOUS TIP — SENTENCING — MINIMUM SENTENCE: Defendant-probationer's Fourth Amendment rights were not violated when probation officers searched defendant-probationer and his apartment because defendant-probationer consented to being searched if there were reasonable grounds to believe defendant-probationer violated the terms of probation and an anonymous tip received by the probation officer, which included a photograph of defendant-probationer with a firearm that was verified by the probation officer as credible, established reasonable ground to believe that defendant-probationer was violating the terms of probation. The trial court did not err when it selected a three-year minimum sentence as part of defendant's indefinite sentence for committing a second-degree felony because the sentencing statute requires a trial court to select a minimum sentence for a conviction of a second-degree felony, the three-year minimum falls within the range prescribed by the sentencing statute, and defendant's attorney told the trial court that defendant was subject to a three-year minimum sentence.