State v. Mallory

Citations

• 160 N.E.3d 399
• 2020 Ohio 4848

Syllabus

The trial court erred in overruling appellant's motion to suppress. What began as a consensual encounter between a task force officer and appellant, a bus passenger, morphed into a Terry stop. The officers' search and seizure of appellant's backpack was not a reasonable precautionary measure, because the totality of the circumstances did not create a reasonable suspicion that appellant was armed and dangerous. Judgment reversed and remanded. (Welbaum, J., dissenting.)