# State v. Richardson (Slip Opinion)

> Ohio Supreme Court · December 29, 2016 · 150 Ohio St. 3d 554

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9870902

## Case

- **Full name:** The State of Ohio, Appellant, v. Richardson, Appellee
- **Court:** Ohio Supreme Court
- **Decided:** December 29, 2016
- **Citations:** 150 Ohio St. 3d 554; 2016 Ohio 8448
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Lanzinger
- **Judges:** French, O'Connor, O'Donnell, Kennedy, Lanzinger, O'Neill, Pfeifer
- **Cited by:** 213 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- concluding that the testimony of an experienced police officer that a defendant appears to be under the influence of a drug of abuse at the time of arrest, paired with additional evidence that the defendant had ingested a drug of abuse, constitutes sufficient evidence to suppo…

## Opinion text

Lanzinger, J.,
dissenting.
{¶ 22} Based on the competing views of the evidence presented in the majority and dissenting opinions, it is clear that the issues raised in the certified conflict and the state’s proposition of law are obscured by the facts and that this case is not an optimal vehicle for making a statement of law on the questions before us. I respectfully dissent and would dismiss this case as having been improvidently accepted.

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