On October 10, 2017, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in State v. Bembry, 2017-Ohio-8114. In an opinion written by Justice O’Neill, the court held that the exclusion of evidence was not the proper remedy for the admitted violation in this case of Ohio’s knock-and-announce statute. Chief Justice O’Connor and

Update: On October 10, 2017, the Supreme Court of Ohio issued a merit decision in this case.  Read the analysis here.

“Going forward, how do we ensure that we don’t have a successive violation of the knock and announce rule if in fact we say, well, yeah, there was a violation, but it doesn’t really

Update: On October 10, 2017, the Supreme Court of Ohio issued a merit decision in this case.  Read the analysis here.

Read the analysis of the argument here.

On March 1, 2017, the Supreme Court of Ohio will hear oral argument in the case of State of Ohio v. Sherri Bembry and Harsimran Singh, 2016-0238