City of Middletown v. Allen

This cause came on to be heard upon an appeal from the Middletown Municipal Court of Butler County.

Defendant-appellant, Bryan T. Allen, appeals his bench conviction for petty theft for which he was sentenced to sixty days in the Middletown City Jail.

During the early morning hours of September 28, 1988, Middletown Police Officers Todd Mann and Jim Lampert were dispatched to an area near Monroe and Harrison Streets in Middletown, Ohio, in response to a call that two individuals were going through motor vehicles parked on the street. The officers observed three subjects near a pickup truck in an…