State v. Gould

{¶ 1} A Lucas County jury convicted Dennis Gould of two counts of rape, one count of gross sexual imposition, six counts of pandering sexually oriented material involving a minor, and five counts of illegal use of a minor in nudity-oriented material, all based on images located on the hard drive of his computer. The Sixth District Court of Appeals reversed the convictions and held that the trial court should have excluded all evidence obtained from the warrantless search of Gould’s hard drive.

{¶ 2} We accepted the state’s appeal on the following proposition of law: “The exclusionary rule…