State v. Hayden

Citations

• 2022 Ohio 3933

Syllabus

SEARCHES AND SEIZURES — FOURTH AMENDMENT —EXCLUSIONARY RULE — SUFFICIENCY AND WEIGHT OF THE EVIDENCE — REAGAN TOKES LAW : The trial court properly overruled defendant's motion to suppress contraband found in a car defendant drove and cash discovered on his person where defendant's probation officer had reasonable grounds to suspect defendant was in violation of the law and the terms of his probation and where defendant had agreed to warrantless searches based on reasonable grounds as a condition of his probation Defendant's convictions for multiple drug offenses and the offense of having weapons while under disability were supported by sufficient evidence and were not against the manifest weight of the evidence where, despite evidence that defendant shared the car where probation officers found drugs and a gun, strong circumstantial evidence tied defendant to the contraband, including the presence of $1000 cash in mixed denominations on defendant's person. The trial court did not err by imposing an indefinite sentence for qualifying offenses where the sentencing scheme embodied in the Reagan Tokes Law is not unconstitutional on its face.