State v. Jones

{¶ 25} The sole issue before the court is whether the exclusionary rule should be applied to suppress evidence obtained as a result of a police officer’s extraterritorial traffic stop. The majority reverses the judgment of the Fifth District Court of Appeals and holds that the trial court properly denied Jones’s and Skropits’s motions to suppress the evidence. I concur with that result based on the following three-part analysis.(1) Whether an officer’s extraterritorial stop in violation of R.C. 2935.03 requires exclusion of evidence.

{¶ 26} As the court of appeals stated in its decision,…