“Out of My Peripheral I Felt as if Something Could Have Taken Place.”
Here’s some remarkable testimony from the suppression hearing in State v. Barnes, handed down yesterday by the Ohio Court of Appeals, in which an officer searched through a suspect’s pockets and found drugs. The officer had already frisked the suspect for weapons and found nothing, but then searched him again on the suggested ground that another suspect might have just handed him something:
On cross-examination, Patrolman Risner admitted that the body camera footage contained no indication that any type of exchange occurred but stated that he “felt as if something could have take
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