State v. Hensley
Decision Date | 30 June 1992 |
Docket Number | No. 2-91-27,2-91-27 |
Citation | 75 Ohio App.3d 822,600 N.E.2d 849 |
Parties | The STATE of Ohio, Appellee, v. HENSLEY, Appellant. |
Court | Ohio Court of Appeals |
Mark Spees, Pros. Atty., and John H. Jones, Asst. Pros. Atty., Wapakoneta, for appellee.
Michael E. Dugan, Lima, for appellant.
This is an appeal from an Auglaize County Municipal Court judgment of conviction dated December 4, 1991. Defendant-appellant, Larry E. Hensley ("appellant"), was charged on September 22, 1991, with a violation of R.C. 4511.19(A)(1), operating a motor vehicle under the influence of alcohol or drugs, and R.C. 4511.19(A)(3), operating a motor vehicle with a breath-alcohol concentration of .166g of alcohol per two hundred ten liters.
On October 29, 1991, appellant filed a motion to suppress the breathalyzer results from evidence for the following reasons:
By journal entry filed November 1, 1991, the trial court stated:
On November 7, 1991, an amended motion to suppress was filed setting forth the following reasons:
The trial court's journal entry of November 19, 1991, states:
The trial was continued to December 3, 1991, and the appellant appeared with counsel and entered a plea of no contest and was found to be guilty of the R.C. 4511.19(A)(3) charge. He was sentenced to a three-day jail sentence (suspended), a one-year license suspension (six months suspended), and a $500 fine ($300 suspended on condition that he complete a seventy-two hour weekend intervention program). The sentence was stayed pending this appeal.
Appellant assigns as error:
Since a portion of the appellant's motion was concerned with Miranda rights and the trial court continued that portion of the motion to be dealt with during the trial itself and the appellant eliminated the necessity of that by entering his no contest plea in lieu of the trial, appellant waived that portion of the motion and any assignment of error connected with it.
As to the balance of the motion to suppress, while we had formerly found that the trial court was not required to consider on a motion to suppress those issues which go to the admissibility of breath test results, we now follow the Supreme Court of Ohio in Defiance v. Kretz (1991), 60 Ohio St.3d 1, 573 N.E.2d 32, which holds that such a motion is a proper pretrial procedure for that purpose. Nor do we disagree that breath test results should not be admitted if they are not accurate or properly administered; and, further, concur that the burden of going forward with the evidence to prove compliance with the applicable rules and regulations is quickly shifted to the state of Ohio in such matters. However, we do not find error in this instance.
The filing of proper pretrial motions to suppress is encouraged in order that the trial court not be required to stop during the course of a trial to determine collateral issues as to the means by which the prosecution obtained its evidence. Further, the failure of defense counsel to object to any improperly obtained evidence as soon as he can, may reasonably lead the prosecution to believe that there is no objection to the evidence and the prosecution will therefore, based upon that reliance, not go to the trouble and expense of obtaining other necessary evidence for the trial. In addition, failure to timely raise objections to any such improper evidence before trial may result in waiving the same. Crim.R. 12(G); State v. Hennessee (1984), 13 Ohio App.3d 436, 13 OBR 525, 469 N.E.2d 947; and State v. Davis (1964), 1 Ohio St.2d 28, 30 O.O.2d 16, 203 N.E.2d 357.
However, defense counsel are not required to file motions to suppress evidence in every case. There should be some particular basis for the filing of the motion which relates to the impropriety of the obtaining of the evidence. Kimmelman v. Morrison (1986), 477 U.S. 365, 106 S.Ct. 2574, 91 L.Ed.2d 305. There are other provisions and methods outlined for discovery purposes in Crim.R. 16 and other rules and statutes. Therefore, the motion to...
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