State v. Colquitt

Peter B. Abele, Judge.

{¶ 1} This is an appeal from a Ross County Common Pleas Court judgment that suppressed certain statements made by Jason R. Colquitt, defendant below and appellee herein. The state of Ohio, defendant below and appellant herein, assigns the following error for review:

The trial court erred in granting the defendant-appellee’s motion to suppress based upon a determination that the statements at issue were taken in violation of his rights under the Fifth and Sixth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution and Article I, § 10 of the Ohio Constitution.

{¶2} In July 2008, Sherry Wells…