State v. Acoff

Myers, Judge.

{¶ 1} The state of Ohio has appealed from the trial court's entries granting defendant-appellee Tamar Acoff's motion to suppress. Because Acoff's arrest was supported by probable cause, and because the search of the vehicle that Acoff was seated in when arrested was permissible under the automobile exception to the warrant requirement, we find that the trial court's granting of the motion to suppress was in error.

Factual Background

{¶ 2} Acoff was arrested for criminal trespass in the parking lot of a Shell gas station. Following his arrest, the vehicle that he had been seated in…