State v. Jones

{¶ 21} I dissent from the court’s decision to dismiss this appeal as having been improvidently accepted. ■ Because it is uncontroverted that appellee, Darnell Jones, did not have a reasonable expectation of privacy in the room searched and because he had abandoned the property before the search took place, I would reverse the decision of the court of appeals and reinstate the trial court’s decision denying the motion to suppress.

*1207Factual Background

{¶ 22} On January 18, 2007, two city of Dayton police officers on routine patrol observed a green Mercury Sable make an abrupt turn into a motel…