State v. Higgins

Delaney, Judge.

{¶ 1} Plaintiff-appellant, the state of Ohio, appeals from the trial court’s entry suppressing evidence of marijuana found on the person of appellee-defendant, Ashley Higgins, when she visited an inmate in the Southeastern Ohio Correctional Institution (“SCI”), as well as statements that appellee made to law-enforcement officers at that time.

{¶ 2} The facts giving rise to the current appeal are:

{¶ 3} Ohio State Highway Patrol Trooper Rebekka Robinson is assigned as a plainclothes investigator working at SCI. Trooper Robinson had been investigating inmate Donel Harris, who was…