141 Ohio App. 3d 556 - State v. Echols’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

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1. “Here, the undisputed evidence discloses, and the trial court expressly found, that Echols did not `report' an emergency, either real or imagined, to anyone. Indeed, to `report' means to convey or disseminate information; and without any such incriminating report in this case, the state, according to the statute, was relegated to the difficult task of proving that Echols himself knew that no emergency existed. To be sure, many sincere and well-intentioned users of the telephone number of the 9-1-1 system might differ substantially as to what constitutes an emergency, and this undoubtedly creates a serious administrative problem for the system; but, absent any `report' evidencing falsity of any kind or description, the evidence actually presented herein provides nothing more than a base for speculation as to what was going through the defendant's mind when he hung up the telephone without completing the 9-1-1 call.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. State v. Link, Unpublished Decision (12-15-2003)