Case Title: State v. Hansard

Citation: 2022-Ohio-1267

Docket Number: 2021-0019

State: ohio

Court: Ohio Supreme Court

Date: 2022-04-19T00:00:00Z

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[Until this opinion appears in the Ohio Official Reports advance sheets, it may be cited as State 
v. Hansard, Slip Opinion No. 2022-Ohio-1267.] 
 
 
 
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SLIP OPINION NO. 2022-OHIO-1267 
THE STATE OF OHIO, APPELLEE, v. HANSARD, APPELLANT. 
[Until this opinion appears in the Ohio Official Reports advance sheets, it 
may be cited as State v. Hansard, Slip Opinion No. 2022-Ohio-1267.] 
Appeal dismissed as having been improvidently accepted. 
(No. 2021-0019―Submitted February 8, 2022―Decided April 19, 2022.) 
APPEAL from the Court of Appeals for Gallia County, 
No. 19CA11, 2020-Ohio-5528. 
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{¶ 1} This cause is dismissed as having been improvidently accepted. 
O’CONNOR, C.J., and KENNEDY, FISCHER, DEWINE, DONNELLY, and 
STEWART, JJ., concur. 
BRUNNER, J., dissents. 
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Jason Holdren, Gallia County Prosecuting Attorney, Jeremy Fisher, 
Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, and Philip D. Bogdanoff, Special Assistant 
Prosecuting Attorney, for appellee. 
SUPREME COURT OF OHIO 
 
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Timothy Young, Ohio Public Defender, and Craig M. Jaquith, Assistant 
Public Defender, for appellant, David S. Hansard. 
Shane A. Tieman, Scioto County Prosecuting Attorney, urging dismissal of 
the appeal as having been improvidently accepted or, in the alternative, affirmance 
for amicus curiae Scioto County Prosecuting Attorney. 
Steven L. Taylor, Legal Research & Staff Counsel, urging dismissal of the 
appeal as having been improvidently accepted or, in the alternative, affirmance for 
amicus curiae Ohio Prosecuting Attorneys Association. 
Flannery & Georgalis, L.L.C., and W. Benjamin Reese; and Bensing Law 
and Russell S. Bensing, urging reversal for amicus curiae Ohio Association of 
Criminal Defense Lawyers. 
Olwyn Conway, Associate Clinical Professor of Law, Ohio State University 
Moritz College of Law, and Deborah Jones Merritt, Professor of Law, Ohio State 
University Moritz College of Law, amici curiae, urging reversal. 
Squire, Patton & Boggs, L.L.P., and Lauren S. Kuley; and NAACP Legal 
Defense & Educational Fund, Inc., and Samuel Spital, urging vacation of sentence 
and remand for a new suppression hearing for amicus curiae NAACP Legal 
Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. 
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