State v. Hall

Citations

• 2022 Ohio 2772

Syllabus

Motion to suppress Fourth Amendment search seizure automobile exception probable cause confidential informant marijuana odor. Probable cause existed to justify a traffic stop where an undercover officer observed a vehicle commit a traffic violation and informed another officer of this observation. Probable cause existed to conduct a search of the vehicle when the officer conducting the traffic stop, a K-9 handler, smelled an odor of raw marijuana. Appellant did not receive ineffective assistance of counsel where trial counsel did not make an argument in a motion to suppress that was unsupported by Ohio law.