State v. Stanford

Citations

• 212 N.E.3d 339
• 2023 Ohio 1011

Syllabus

CONSTITUIONAL LAW/CRIMINAL – FOURTH AMENDMENT – SEARCH AND SEIZURE In a criminal prosecution for drug trafficking and possession, the trial court did not err in denying defendant's motion to suppress items police recovered from defendant's vehicle after a drug dog alerted on defendant's vehicle where police stopped defendant's vehicle because it matched a description of a vehicle that had been involved in a recent shooting the drug dog arrived on the scene contemporaneously with the initial stop police used the drug dog to sniff a grassy area near the vehicle based on an officer's belief that defendant had thrown an object out of the vehicle window and once the drug dog completed searching the hill, and after officers spoke with detectives regarding the shooting investigation, police immediately used the drug dog to sniff defendant's vehicle.