State v. Waters

Citations

• 2025 Ohio 4479

Syllabus

FOURTH AMENDMENT — SEARCH AND SEIZURE — TRAFFIC STOP — PROBABLE CAUSE — REASONABLE SUSPICION —AUTOMOBILE EXCEPTION: The trial court did not err in denying defendant's motion to suppress evidence found in defendant's car following a traffic stop where officers had probable cause to initiate the traffic stop based on their observing defendant commit a traffic violation and the officer's smelling marijuana coming from defendant's car along with defendant's admission to having smoked marijuana recently provided the officers with probable cause to believe that they would find contraband in defendant's car justifying the search of defendant's car under the automobile exception to the Fourth Amendment's warrant requirement.