State v. Armstrong
Ohio Court of Appeals
1Opinion of the Court
Reece, Judge.
Appellant, the state of Ohio, appeals from the trial court’s order suppressing evidence of drug trafficking obtained during an investigative stop of the defendant-appellee, Raymond Armstrong. We reverse.
On July 16,1994, Officers Stevyn Curry and Eric Gonzalez of the Lorain Police Department were patrolling the Leavitt Homes housing project in plain clothes. They were assigned to the department’s C.O.P.S. unit, which attempts “to suppress drug activity in the [Leavitt Homes] area because it is notorious for high crime and open drug sales.” Around midnight, the officers observed…
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