State v. Gideon (Slip Opinion)

Citations

• 159 N.E.3d 1190
• 160 Ohio St. 3d 1518
• 2020 Ohio 6961

Syllabus

Medical license is a property right and threatened loss of the license is a form of coercion—R.C. 4731.22(B)—Coercion is not sufficient to warrant the suppression of statements made during a medical-board investigative interview unless defendant's belief that he would lose his license if he failed to participate in the medical-board interview and answer questions truthfully is both subjectively believed and objectively reasonable—Court of appeals erred by finding that assignment of error relating to the sufficiency-of-the-evidence claim was moot under App.R. 12(A)(1)(c)—Court of appeals' judgment reversed and cause remanded.