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75 Ohio App. 3d 702

600 N.E.2d 772

State v. Smoot

Ohio Court of Appeals

Decided August 22, 1991

Ohio Court of Appeals · decided 1991-08-22

Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently May 1997

4 state decisions

Relies on City of Defiance v. Kretz

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Decided 1991-08-22

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Edwin T. Hofstetter, Judge,

¶1 concurring separately.

¶2 Heretofore, prior to Defiance v. Kretz (1991), 60 Ohio St.3d 1, 573 N.E.2d 32, my reasoning concerning the propriety of an appeal from a conviction after a motion to suppress is overruled and a “no contest” plea entered comported substantially with the thinking expressed in the dissent in Kretz, supra. Thus, in the instant case, I would have found this court to be without justification to address the merits of the assignment because the evidentiary *711 issue assigned as error was, in fact, waived by the “no contest” plea, and thus I would have affirmed because of that waiver.

¶3 Now, as to the merits of the assignment on appeal, I have a problem with the complete rationale of the majority opinion. However, I, too, am unable to conclude, based on the evidence before the trial court, that it erred in allowing the defendant’s BAC Verifier test results to be admitted as evidence, and therefore I join the majority in its affirmance.

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