City of Columbus v. Murchison

Defendant, Gerald E. Murchison, appeals his conviction for driving a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol.

Michael Turner, the police officer whose testimony at trial defendant sought to suppress, testified at the hearing on defendant’s motion to suppress, that, while he normally worked as a detective in plain clothes, on October 25, 1983 he was off duty but was in uniform and in an unmarked car returning from having directed traffic on a special-duty assignment; that he observed an automobile being operated in an erratic fashion and followed it; that he radioed for a police…