{"id":17799,"date":"2015-06-24T07:49:34","date_gmt":"2015-06-24T12:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=17799"},"modified":"2015-06-24T07:49:34","modified_gmt":"2015-06-24T12:49:34","slug":"oh-township-officers-have-no-statutory-authority-to-patrol-interstates-for-drugs-violation-of-statute-here-violated-state-constitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=17799","title":{"rendered":"OH: Township officers have no statutory authority to patrol interstates for drugs; violation of statute here violated state constitution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A township officer has no statutory authority to work drug interdiction on an interstate highway. Because statute didn\u2019t authorize the stop, the appellate court properly suppressed under the state constitution. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.supremecourt.ohio.gov\/rod\/docs\/pdf\/0\/2015\/2015-Ohio-2438.pdf\">State v. Brown<\/a>, 2015-Ohio-2438, 2015 Ohio LEXIS 1558 (June 23, 2015).<\/p>\n<p>The sound of crinkling cellophane in a sock during a patdown was plain feel and hearing of probable drugs. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.supremecourt.ohio.gov\/rod\/docs\/pdf\/12\/2015\/2015-Ohio-2464.pdf\">State v. Grant<\/a>, 2015-Ohio-2464, 2015 Ohio App. LEXIS 2362 (12th Dist. June 22, 2015).<\/p>\n<p>The district court\u2019s credibility finding of a tag light being out and plain view after the stop is affirmed. <a href=\"http:\/\/media.ca11.uscourts.gov\/opinions\/unpub\/files\/201412129.pdf\">United States v. Wright<\/a>, 2015 U.S. App. LEXIS 10554 (11th Cir. June 23, 2015).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A township officer has no statutory authority to work drug interdiction on an interstate highway. Because statute didn\u2019t authorize the stop, the appellate court properly suppressed under the state constitution. State v. Brown, 2015-Ohio-2438, 2015 Ohio LEXIS 1558 (June 23, &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=17799\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plain-view","category-state-constitution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17800,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17799\/revisions\/17800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}