State v. Daniels

This is an appeal brought by the state of Ohio from judgment of the Huron County Court of Common Pleas, granting a motion to suppress evidence seized pursuant to a search warrant. The trial court, upon consideration of the affidavit only, found the search warrant to be defective:

“* * * based upon a lack of identification of the source of information provided in the affidavit and the subsequent failure of the search warrant to meet the two pronged test set forth by the United States Supreme Court in Aguilar versus Texas, 378 U.S. 108 (1964) and the Court further finds a lack of substantiating…