Case ID: ohio-st-3d_121/html/0269-02.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The State of Ohio, Appellant, v. Derov, Appellee.
    [Cite as State v. Derov, 121 Ohio St.3d 269, 2009-Ohio-1111.]
    
      (Nos. 2008-0853 and 2008-0858 —
    Submitted February 4, 2009 —
    Decided March 18, 2009.)
    Paul J. Gains, Mahoning County Prosecuting Attorney, and Ralph M. Rivera, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for appellant.
    Robert C. Kokor, for appellee.
    Lamkin, Van Eman, Trimble, Beals & Dougherty, L.L.C., and Timothy L. Van Eman, urging reversal for amicus curiae Mothers Against Drunk Driving.
    Joseph R. Macejko, Youngstown City Prosecutor, urging reversal for amicus curiae city of Youngstown.
    Richard Cordray, Attorney General, Benjamin C. Mizer, Solicitor General, and Jason Patrick Small, Deputy Solicitor, urging reversal for amicus curiae Ohio Attorney General.
    Timothy Huey; and Atway & Cochran, L.L.C., and Scott R. Cochran, urging affirmance for amicus curiae Ohio Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.
   {¶ 1} The record in the trial court concerning the portable breathalyzer test used in this case is not sufficient to support either the statements in the opinion of the court of appeals regarding the use of the portable breathalyzer and the value of its test results or the judgment that the trial court should not have considered the results of the portable breath test. Accordingly, that portion of the judgment of the court of appeals is reversed, and the cause is remanded to the court of appeals for further proceedings.

{¶ 2} In view of the foregoing disposition of appellant’s Proposition of Law No. II, the notice of certified conflict is dismissed for want of a conflict.

{¶ 3} Sua sponte, the appeal is dismissed as to appellant’s Proposition of Law Nos. I and III as having been improvidently accepted.

{¶ 4} The opinion of the court of appeals may not be cited as authority except by the parties inter se.

Moyer, C.J., and Lundberg Stratton, O’Connor, O’Donnell, and Cupp, JJ., concur.

Pfeifer and Lanzinger, JJ., dissent in part and would dismiss the cause as having been improvidently accepted.