State v. Griffin

Citations

• 2024 Ohio 1699

Syllabus

SEARCH AND SEIZURE – SEARCH WARRANT - STALENESS: The trial court did not err in denying defendant's motion to suppress evidence found during the search of his home in accord with a warrant where the warrant listed having weapons under disability rather than felonious assault, which was the offense that the police were investigating, because the failure to specify the offense to which the evidence is related by name or code section in the affidavit is not constitutionally significant and does not require the suppression of evidence seized pursuant to that warrant. The information in the affidavit supporting the search warrant was not stale where the warrant was sought a week after a shooting as part of an ongoing investigation and where the perpetrator was originally unidentified.