State v. Harding

Fain, Judge.

{¶ 1} Plaintiff-appellant, the state of Ohio, appeals from an order of the trial court suppressing evidence. The state contends that the trial court erred in finding that the police officer who stopped defendant-appellee, William R. Harding, lacked reasonable and articulable suspicion justifying the stop, and, in the alternative, that an outstanding warrant for Harding’s arrest, although unknown to the officer at the time of the stop, furnished an independent basis for the stop.

{¶ 2} Although we agree with the trial court that the stopping police officer lacked reasonable and…