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Technology
Ohio Supreme Court Rules Warrant Needed To Search Cell Phones
Ohio patrol officers looking to gather evidence from the cell phones of people they question will now need a search warrant, following a ruling by that state's high court.
December 16, 2009
Patrol
Ohio Court Rules Officer's Estimate Good Enough for Speeding Conviction
The Ohio Supreme Court has ruled that a trained officer's "visual estimation" of a vehicle traveling over the posted limit is sufficient for a conviction.
June 2, 2010
Technology
Ohio Police Get More Time to Plant Tracking Devices
The Ohio Supreme Court is now giving law enforcement an extra week to install tracking devices after obtaining a search warrant.
June 25, 2014
Patrol
Ohio Cop Killer's Death Sentence Upheld
The Ohio Supreme Court unanimously upheld Ashford Thompson's aggravated murder conviction for the 2008 slaying of a Twinsburg, Ohio, police officer, but split 4-3 in deciding that the death penalty was appropriate.
November 3, 2014
Patrol
Prosecutor: Ohio Agency's Fake Drug Checkpoints Legal
An Ohio agency's face drug checkpoints don't violate a 2000 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that officers can't randomly stop cars to search motorists for drugs, a prosecutor told The Plain Dealer.
June 30, 2013
Patrol
Residential Protective Sweeps
There's always a risk that when a Supreme Court decision discusses two or more major points, those points may get blurred. One familiar example is Terry v. Ohio, which is often cited as the opinion that gave us the "stop and frisk" rule.
October 31, 2005
Patrol
Ohio Court OKs Keeping Names of Officers Secret
When a Columbus police officer’s fatal shooting of a suspect inflamed passions in a South Side neighborhood last year, city authorities refused to identify the officer to protect him from "credible threats."
May 10, 2012
Patrol
The 5 Biggest Search-and-Seizure Myths
Ever since the U.S. Supreme Court made the Fourth Amendment exclusionary rule binding on the states in the 1961 decision in
Mapp v. Ohio,
thousands of published decisions from state and federal courts have applied the exclusionary rule to thousands of searches and seizures. It's no wonder the 50-year tidal wave of exclusionary decisions has left confusion and misunderstanding in its wake. Here are five areas of the law that seem to suffer the most in translation.
November 11, 2014
Patrol
Obama's Election Victory and the Supreme Court
What is the likely consequence of the re-election of Barack Obama with respect to judicial appointments, as they bear on law enforcement and public safety issues? In our business, we're trained to look for the clues. There are plenty of those to examine.
December 26, 2012
Technology
Rules in Flux on Ohio Police Use of GPS Tracking
Ohio law is playing catch-up with the increasing police practice of secretly installing GPS devices on suspects’ vehicles to track their travels and potentially crack crimes.
February 12, 2014
Special Units
Court Rules Prisons Must Accommodate All Inmates’ Religions
The Supreme Court has ruled that even satanists must be allowed access to literature, ceremonial items, and time to practice their religions while in state prisons.
June 1, 2005
Weapons
N.Y. Court: Shooting Victim Can Sue Gunmaker
A former high school athlete who was shot in 2003 may sue the companies that made and distributed the handgun used in the crime under an appellate court ruling.
October 8, 2012
Patrol
Video: Ohio Robbery Suspect OIS Under Investigation
The police investigation into the fatal shooting of a 13-year-old robbery suspect in Columbus, OH, will probably take weeks.
September 16, 2016
Patrol
Ohio's Concealed Carry Ban Lifted
An appeals court in Ohio upheld a lower court's ruling that the state's ban on carrying concealed weapons violates the state constitution.
April 10, 2002
Patrol
Federal Court Rules Police Justified in Shooting Dogs if They Move, Bark During Home Entry
The decision, which only applies in Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee, stems from a 2013 incident in Battle Creek, Michigan, where, according to court documents, police shot and killed a dog while executing a search warrant on a home looking for drugs.
December 27, 2016
Patrol
Ohio Enacts Law to Create LE Database of Mentally Ill Subjects
Three years after Clark County (Ohio) Deputy Sheriff Suzanne Hopper was ambushed and killed by a deranged man, a new rule went into effect Wednesday requiring courts to notify police about violent offenders with a mental illness.
January 1, 2014
Patrol
High Court: Fleeing, Other Factors Justify Detention
Ratcheting up the authority of police to stop and question fleeing individuals, the U.S. Supreme Court in mid-January, ruled that officers can legally detain someone who runs upon merely seeing the police if other factors are present and can be articulated by officers.
January 31, 2000
Patrol
Pennsylvania Lawmaker Wants Vote on "Stop and Frisk" in November
A lawmaker in Philadelphia is pushing to have voters weigh in on the practice of "stop and frisk" in the upcoming general election.
February 11, 2020
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