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Ohio Supreme Court· 11/12/1997

State v. Robinette

Citations

  • 1997 Ohio 343
  • 80 Ohio St. 3d 234

Syllabus

Criminal law—Motor vehicles—Continued detention of a person stopped for a traffic violation constitutes an illegal seizure, when—Totality-of-the-circumstances test is controlling in an unlawful detention to determine whether permission to search a vehicle is voluntary—Requirements for consent to be considered an independent act of free will.

Judges: Lundberg Stratton, J.

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