Court Opinion

ID: 9835136
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-02 02:08:10.423481+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:44:58.387916
License: Public Domain

Lanzinger, J.,
concurring in judgment only.
{¶ 71} “The decisions of the [United States Supreme] Court are not, and should not be, dispositive of questions regarding rights guaranteed by counterpart provisions of state law. Accordingly, such decisions are not mechanically applicable to state law issues, and state court judges and the members of the bar seriously err if they so treat them.” (Footnote omitted.) Brennan, State Constitutions and the Protection of Individual Rights, 90 Harv.L.Rev. 489, 502 (1977).
{¶ 72} Based on the analysis that the Ohio Constitution is a document of independent force, I join the lead opinion in judgment only.