State v. Penwell

Citations

• 170 N.E.3d 52
• 2021 Ohio 1216

Syllabus

The trial court did not err by overruling appellant's motion to suppress evidence obtained as a result of appellant's encounter with two police officers and a search of his person. Under the circumstances, the officers' interaction with appellant was a consensual encounter, and irrespective of the fact that the search occurred while appellant lay on a bed in a corridor in a hospital's emergency department, appellant's consent to the search was voluntary. Judgment affirmed. (Donovan, J., dissenting.)