State v. Gottfried

Sherck, Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment of conviction and subsequent imposition of sentence by the Port Clinton Municipal Court on a charge of operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol. Because the trial court properly found the arresting officer’s initial stop of appellant was based upon a reasonable articulable suspicion of wrongdoing and that appellant’s consent to a chemical test for blood alcohol was voluntary, we affirm.

On the evening of May 9, 1991, a Danbury Township police officer arrested appellant, Robert P. Gottfried, at the entrance of a private…