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74 Ohio St. 3d 554

State v. Griffith

Ohio Supreme Court

Decided February 21, 1996

Ohio Supreme Court · decided 1996-02-21

Key passage — most relied on by later courts

“`Does imposition of the exclusionary rule lie as a remedy for police violation of the accused's statutory right to counsel under Section 2935.20 of the Revised Code in a prosecution under Section 4511.19 (A)(3) of the Revised Code such that the prosecution should be precluded from presenting evidence of the results of an otherwise admissible breath alcohol content analysis of the accused solely because of police failure to comply with Section R.C. 2935.20 of the Revised Code?'”

quoted by 2 later decisions, including City of Twinsburg v. Lacerva, 23849 (2-13-2008), State v. Turner, 2007-P-0090 (8-1-2008)

Applies OH 2935 § 2935.20

Relies on City of Fairborn v. Mattachione · 94 Ohio App. 3d 684 - City of Lakewood v. Waselenchuk · 32 Ohio App. 3d 7 - City of Columbus v. Reid

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Decided 1996-02-21

How this case has been cited

Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently May 2024

13 state decisions

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Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.

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¶1This cause is before this court upon the certification of the court of appeals that its judgment conflicted with the judgment of the Court of Appeals for Franklin County in Columbus v. Reid (1986), 32 Ohio App.3d 7, 513 N.E.2d 351, and the judgment of the Court of Appeals for Cuyahoga County in Lakewood v. Waselenchuk (1994), 94 Ohio App.3d 684, 641 N.E.2d 767, upon the following question:

¶2“Does imposition of the exclusionary rule lie as a remedy for police violation of the accused’s statutory right to counsel under Section 2935.20 of the Revised Code in a prosecution arising under Section 4511.19(A)(3) of the Revised Code such that the prosecution should be precluded from presenting evidence of the results of an otherwise admissible breath alcohol content analysis of the accused solely because of police failure to comply with Section 2935.20 of the Revised Code?”

¶3This court answers the certified question in the negative. The judgment of the court of appeals is reversed and the trial court’s judgment is reinstated on the authority of Fairborn v. Mattachione (1995), 72 Ohio St.3d 345, 650 N.E.2d 426.

Moyer, C.J., Douglas, Resnick, F.E. Sweeney and Cook, JJ., concur. Weight and Pfeifer, JJ., dissent.
Wright, J.,

¶4dissenting. I dissent for generally the same reasons I dissented in Fairborn v. Mattachione (1995), 72 Ohio St.3d 345, 650 N.E.2d 426, a dissent that was joined by Chief Justice Moyer and Justice Pfeifer. I continue to believe that this issue is factually specific and should be determined case by case.

Pfeifer, J., concurs in the foregoing dissenting opinion.
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