State v. Wright

Citations

• 243 N.E.3d 782
• 2024 Ohio 1763

Syllabus

FOURTH AMENDMENT — SEARCH AND SEIZURE — AUTOMOBILE EXCEPTION — DRUG DOG — PROBABLE CAUSE — MOTION TO SUPPRESS — WAIVER: Defendant's argument that a drug-detection dog's sniff constituted a search under the Fourth Amendment because the dog could not differentiate between legal and illegal forms of marijuana was waived where defendant did not make this argument before the trial court. The trial court did not err in denying defendant's motion to suppress evidence found during a search of defendant's vehicle where officers had probable cause to believe the vehicle contained contraband based on multiple factors, including a drug-detection dog's alert.