State v. Montgomery

Citations

• 2020 Ohio 513

Syllabus

The trial court did not err in overruling the appellant's suppression motion. The record reflects that police discovered the appellant's identity during a consensual encounter and learned that he had been \trespassed\ from the apartment complex where he was found. The trial court acted within its discretion in precluding suppression-hearing testimony about an alleged pattern of police conduct involving stopping people at apartment complexes \which trains citizens to believe that their encounters with police are not consensual.\ The trial court did not err in failing to consider that \the very presence of police\ may cause citizens to feel detained or in failing to acknowledge that \a private citizen may put himself at risk of harm by attempting to walk away from a police officer.\ Judgment affirmed.