concluding that “[e]ven if the canine sniff occurred within the 12 to 13 minutes that it typically took [the officer] to issue a citation,” the officer “indisputably added time to the stop” by “doing nothing for eight minutes while awaiting a canine unit”
How later courts described this case
- concluding that “[e]ven if the canine sniff occurred within the 12 to 13 minutes that it typically took [the officer] to issue a citation,” the officer “indisputably added time to the stop” by “doing nothing for eight minutes while awaiting a canine unit”
- affirming a trial court’s decision to grant a motion to suppress where the police did “nothing for eight minutes while awaiting a canine unit”
Written by the judges who cited it.
The opinion
DONOVAN, J., concurring:
{¶ 15} I agree with the well-reasoned opinion of the majority. I write separately merely to note that I would also defer to the trial court's finding that the ten minute delay, to resolve the identification issue, should not be attributed to Hall.