State v. Ricciardi

Defendant-appellant, Thomas Ricciardi, appeals the decision of the Mahoning County Court of Common Pleas overruling his motion to suppress evidence. At issue in this case is whether the trial court’s ruling is a final order subject to immediate review under newly amended R.C. 2505.02.

On May 22, 1998, appellant was indicted on one count of driving under the influence of alcohol, in violation of R.C. 4511.19(A)(1), and one count of operating a motor vehicle with a concentration of ten-hundredths of one gram or more by weight of alcohol per two hundred ten liters of his breath, in violation of…