State v. Guerrero-Sanchez

Citations

• 2017 Ohio 8185

Syllabus

The trial court did not err in overruling Appellant's motion to suppress his statements to officers and the drug evidence seized from his hotel room. Appellant's claim that his statements were involuntary and suppressible as the result of a language barrier lacks merit, as there is competent, credible evidence in the record establishing that Appellant spoke English and understood what the investigating officers were saying during the encounter in question. In addition, because Appellant's statements were not made during a custodial interrogation, Appellant's statements were not suppressible due to the officers' failure to administer Miranda warnings. The drug evidence seized from Appellant's hotel room was also not suppressible because the evidence was discovered pursuant to a consensual search. Furthermore, there is no error in Appellant's sentence, as we do not find by clear and convincing evidence that the record does not support the maximum 11-year prison term imposed by the trial court for Appellant's first-degree-felony aggravated possession of drugs offense. Affirmed.