State v. Mee

Citations

• 2017 Ohio 7343
• 96 N.E.3d 1020

Syllabus

Defendant-appellee was stopped for a traffic violation, with this stop ultimately resulting in a search of Defendant-appellee's vehicle and the discovery of contraband. The involved police officers acquired a reasonable, articulable suspicion of criminal conduct within a time period that did not extend the traffic stop beyond the time period reasonably necessary to resolve the traffic violation. The officers, thereafter, obtained probable cause to search Defendant-appellee's vehicle. The contraband, therefore, was discovered and seized in a constitutionally permissible fashion. Judgment reversed and remanded. (Froelich, J., dissenting.)