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Traffic Stops →
Consent to a search of the vehicle can be refused, and a refusal leaves the lawfulness of any search for a court to decide. Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Ohio Const. art. I, § 14 An officer may order the driver out of a lawfully stopped vehicle without needing any additional reason for it. Pennsylvania v. Mimms A stop lasts as long as its mission. Once the work the stop was made for is done, or reasonably should be, holding somebody longer needs its own justification. Rodriguez v. United States When You Must Identify →
Verbal is enough. Ohio's rule asks for three facts, not a document. ORC 2921.29 Refusing the three facts once suspicion is real is its own misdemeanor. ORC 2921.29 · ORC 2929.24 Guns In Your Car →
The duty to disclose still applies and permitless carry did not remove it. Since 2022 it is tied to the officer asking rather than to volunteering it on contact, and the section on carrying covers what is contested about that. ORC 2923.126 A qualifying adult, meaning twenty one or over and not prohibited from possessing a firearm, may have a loaded concealed handgun in a vehicle. The old transport restrictions no longer reach them. ORC 2923.111 The Tests At The Roadside →
No Ohio statute makes declining the roadside tests a separate offence. Implied consent, and the suspension for refusing, belong to the chemical test after an arrest. ORC 4511.19 · ORC 4511.191 The burden is on the prosecution, and it is the higher civil burden of clear and convincing evidence, not a bare showing that the tests happened. ORC 4511.19 Driving On A Prescription →
The prescription exception covers the fixed concentration limits only. It does not reach the question of whether the driver was under the influence. ORC 4511.19 The OVI Stop →
Roadside field sobriety tests are a different thing entirely. They are evidence gathering, and Ohio has no statute making refusal of them a separate crime. ORC 4511.191 The chemical test after arrest is the one implied consent reaches, and refusing it has its own consequences. ORC 4511.191 Your Phone →
There is no obligation to volunteer your passcode. U.S. Const. amend. V Consenting to a look through your phone waives the warrant requirement entirely. You do not have to consent. Riley v. California · U.S. Const. amend. IV If You Are A Passenger →
You are not the driver, so the licence, registration, and insurance requirement is not yours. ORC 4507.35 Ohio's stop and identify rule still applies to you if there is reasonable suspicion about you specifically. ORC 2921.29 The Frisk →
It is a pat of the outer clothing, not a trip through your pockets. Terry v. Ohio · State v. Evans A protective search cannot be expanded into a general search for evidence. State v. Evans The whole of each is on its section, and Walk it through takes a stop a step at a time, with what the law asks of each side.
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