State v. McLemore

Grady, Presiding Judge.

{¶ 1} This appeal is brought by the state pursuant to R.C. 2945.67 and Crim.R. 12(K) from a judgment of the trial court that granted defendant, Tyler McLemore’s, motion to suppress the evidence.

{¶ 2} In reviewing a trial court’s decision on a motion to suppress, an appellate court must accept the trial court’s findings of fact if they are supported by competent, credible evidence in the record. Accepting those facts as true, the court of appeals then independently determines, as a matter of law without deference to the trial court’s conclusion, whether those facts…