156 Ohio App. 3d 205 - State v. Groves’s Empirical Analysis

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14 state decisions

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1. “indicated that his conclusion that the hard object in the defendant's sock might be crack cocaine was merely a suspicion, rather than probable cause to believe, that the hard object was crack cocaine. Groves , supra, at ¶ 43 . Applying this rationale to the present case, Hansard focuses on Investigator Timberlake's testimony that he believed the object”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Hansard, 07ca3177 (6-25-2008)

2. “[T]he Fourth Amendment's requirement that the officer have probable cause to believe that the item is contraband before seizing it ensures against excessively speculative seizures.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Wintermeyer

3. “that the object was crack cocaine, but did not claim he had probable cause to believe that the object was crack cocaine. The court concluded that the officer's use of the word”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Hansard, 07ca3177 (6-25-2008)