State v. Lee

Dickinson, Presiding Judge.

The state has appealed from a judgment of the Summit County Common Pleas Court that granted defendant’s motion to suppress evidence found in a pill bottle that was in defendant’s pocket during a weapons patdown. The state argues that the trial court incorrectly granted the motion because the “plain feel” doctrine allowed the officer who patted down defendant to examine the contents of a pill bottle he found while conducting a weapons patdown of defendant. This court reverses the judgment of the trial court because the plain-feel doctrine justified the search of the…