Opinion

State v. Huth

  • 24 Ohio St. 3d 114
  • 24 Ohio B. 306
  • 493 N.E.2d 961
  • 1986 Ohio LEXIS 655
Court
Ohio Supreme Court
Filed
Jun 18, 1986
Status
Published
Author
Holmes
On the bench
Brown, Celebrezze, Douglas, Holmes, Locher, Only, Sweeney, Wright
Cited by
20 cases

The opinion

Holmes, J.,

concurring. I must concur in the judgment here, but do so reluctantly because the phraseology of the statute would so require. However, the result is not a reasonable one, in my view, in that I believe that the public policy inherent in the Traffic Code should logically provide that all vehicles involved in apprehension of those involved in violations should be marked in a distinctive manner or color. It would seem that there is no more reasonable basis for a vehicle being used full-time in traffic enforcement to be appropriately marked as a police vehicle than one being utilized basically for security purposes, but also occasionally used, as here, for apprehending traffic violators.

C. Brown, J., concurs in the foregoing concurring opinion.

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