State v. Thornton

Citations

• 213 N.E.3d 808
• 2023 Ohio 1404

Syllabus

The trial court erred in finding that there was no reasonable articulable suspicion to justify a Terry stop and in granting defendant-appellee's motion to suppress. Considering the totality of the circumstances, the officers initially had reasonable suspicion to justify a Terry stop. Additionally, appellee failed to submit to a show of authority by the police and was not seized until after he had fled on foot and had been observed holding and then discarding a firearm by that time, the officers had additional reasonable articulable suspicion to justify a Terry stop. Finally, appellee abandoned the firearm in his possession when he threw it to the ground while being pursued by police, thereby relinquishing any reasonable expectation of privacy in it. Judgment reversed.