State v. Karle

Gorman, Presiding Judge.

In these consolidated appeals, defendant-appellant James Karle challenges his convictions, following a bench trial in the Hamilton County Municipal Court, for failure to comply with an order or signal of a police officer at the scene of a potentially violent traffic altercation, and for disorderly conduct and resisting arrest when other officers later entered his home without a warrant to arrest him for the failure-to-comply offense. Since the Fourth Amendment prohibits the police from making a warrantless, nonconsensual entry into a suspect’s home simply to make a…