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...A judge of a county court is a conservator of the peace and has jurisdiction in criminal cases throughout the judge's area of jurisdiction. The judge of a county court may hear complaints of the peace and issue search warrants. Judges of county courts have jurisdiction on sworn complaint, to issue a warrant for the arrest of a person charged with the commission of a felony where it is made to appear that such person ...

...A judge of a court of record may, within his jurisdiction, issue warrants to search a house or place: (A) For property stolen, taken by robbers, embezzled, or obtained under false pretense; (B) For weapons, implements, tools, instruments, articles or property used as a means of the commission of a crime, or when any of the objects or articles are in the possession of another person with the intent to use them as a ...

...Warrants issued under section 2933.21 of the Revised Code shall be substantially in the following form: State of Ohio, _______________________ County, ss: To the sheriff (or other officer) of said County, greeting: Whereas there has been filed with me an affidavit, of which the following is a copy (here copy the affidavit). These are, therefore, to command you in the name of the State of Ohio, with the necessary ...

...(A) The prosecuting attorney of the county in which an interception is to take place or in which an interception device is to be installed, or an assistant to the prosecuting attorney of that county who is specifically designated by the prosecuting attorney to exercise authority under this section, may authorize an application for an interception warrant to a judge of the court of common pleas of the county in which ...

...(A) A judge of a court of common pleas to whom an application for an interception warrant is made under section 2933.53 of the Revised Code may issue an interception warrant if the judge determines, on the basis of the facts submitted by the person who made the application and all affiants, that all of the following exist: (1) The application and affidavits comply with section 2933.53 of the Revised Code. (2...

...(A) Any interception warrant or extension of an interception warrant that is issued pursuant to sections 2933.53 to 2933.55 of the Revised Code shall contain all of the following: (1) The name and court of the judge who issued the warrant and the jurisdiction of that court; (2) If known, the identity of each person whose communications are to be intercepted or, if the identity is unascertainable, a detailed descrip...

...(A) An investigative officer who is, or a member of the law enforcement agency that is, authorized by an interception warrant or a grant of an oral order for an interception pursuant to section 2933.57 of the Revised Code to intercept wire, oral, or electronic communications or an individual who is operating under a contract with that agency and is acting under the supervision of that officer or a member of that agen...

...(A) Upon the institution of any criminal proceeding charging a medicaid fraud offense, the state, at any time during the pendency of the proceeding, may file a medicaid fraud lien notice with the county recorder of any county in which forfeitable property subject to forfeiture may be located. No fee shall be required for filing the notice. The recorder immediately shall record the notice pursuant to section 317.08 ...

...(A) As used in this section and section 2933.77 of the Revised Code, "electronic communication," "electronic communication service," "investigative officer," "judge of a court of common pleas," "pen register," "trap and trace device," and "wire communication" have the same meanings as in section 2933.51 of the Revised Code. (B) A judge of a court of common pleas, in accordance with this section, may issue an order a...

...(A) As used in this section: (1)(a) "Biological evidence" means any of the following: (i) The contents of a sexual assault examination kit; (ii) Any item that contains blood, semen, hair, saliva, skin tissue, fingernail scrapings, bone, bodily fluids, or any other identifiable biological material that was collected as part of a criminal investigation or delinquent child investigation and that reasonably may ...

...(A) As used in this section, "governmental evidence-retention entity" has the same meaning as in section 2933.82 of the Revised Code. (B) Within one hundred eighty days after the effective date of this section, and annually thereafter, all governmental evidence-retention entities that receive, maintain, store, or preserve sexual assault evidence kits shall submit a report containing all of the following informatio...

...(A) A merchant, or an employee or agent of a merchant, who has probable cause to believe that items offered for sale by a mercantile establishment have been unlawfully taken by a person, may, for the purposes set forth in division (C) of this section, detain the person in a reasonable manner for a reasonable length of time within the mercantile establishment or its immediate vicinity. (B) Any officer, employe...

...(A) Upon the filing of an affidavit or complaint as provided by section 2935.09 of the Revised Code, if it charges the commission of a felony, such judge, clerk, or magistrate, unless the judge, clerk, or magistrate has reason to believe that it was not filed in good faith, or the claim is not meritorious, shall forthwith issue a warrant for the arrest of the person charged in the affidavit, and directed to a peace o...

...An affidavit in the form following is sufficient: "The State of Ohio, ____________________ County, ss: Before me, A.B., personally came C.D., who being duly sworn according to law, deposes and says that on or about the ________________ day of ___________________, ____ at the county of ____________________, one E.F. (here describe the offense committed as nearly according to the nature thereof as the case will admi...

...(A) Notwithstanding any other provision of the Revised Code, when a law enforcement officer is otherwise authorized to arrest a person for the commission of a minor misdemeanor, the officer shall not arrest the person, but shall issue a citation, unless one of the following applies: (1) The offender requires medical care or is unable to provide for the offender's own safety. (2) The offender cannot or will not of...

...(A) When, after arrest, the accused is taken before a court or magistrate, or when the accused appears pursuant to terms of summons or notice, the affidavit or complaint being first filed, the court or magistrate shall, before proceeding further: (1) Inform the accused of the nature of the charge and the identity of the complainant and permit the accused or counsel for the accused to see and read the affidavit or c...

...(A) On the motion of the prosecuting attorney or on the judge's own motion, the judge shall hold a hearing to determine whether an accused person charged with aggravated murder when it is not a capital offense, murder, a felony of the first or second degree, a violation of section 2903.06 of the Revised Code, a violation of section 2903.211 of the Revised Code that is a felony, or a felony OVI offense shall be denie...

...The trial of an issue shall proceed before the trial court or jury as follows: (A) Counsel may state the case for the prosecution, including the evidence by which he expects to sustain it. (B) Counsel for the defendant may state his defense, including the evidence which he expects to offer. (C) The prosecution then shall produce all its evidence, and the defendant may follow with his evidence, but the court or mag...

...If a person held in jail charged with an indictable offense is not indicted at the term of court at which he is held to answer, he shall be discharged unless: (A) He was committed on such charge after the discharge of the grand jury. (B) The transcript has not been filed. (C) There is not sufficient time at such term of court to investigate said cause. (D) The grand jury, for good cause, continues the hearing of ...

...An indictment or information is sufficient if it can be understood therefrom: (A) That it is entitled in a court having authority to receive it, though the name of the court is not stated; (B) If it is an indictment, that it was found by a grand jury of the county in which the court was held, or if it is an information, that it was subscribed and presented to the court by the prosecuting attorney of the county in w...

...An indictment may be substantially in the following form: "The State of Ohio,) ss. ___________ County) In the Year _______ The jurors of the Grand Jury of the State of Ohio, within and for the body of the County aforesaid, on their oaths, in the name and by the authority of the State of Ohio, do find and present that A.B., on the _______ day of ___________, _________, at the county of ___________ aforesaid, did ...

...An indictment or information is not made invalid, and the trial, judgment, or other proceedings stayed, arrested, or affected: (A) By the omission of "with force and arms," or words of similar import, or "as appears by the record"; (B) For omitting to state the time at which the offense was committed, in a case in which time is not of the essence of the offense; (C) For stating the time imperfectly; (D) For stati...

...(A) Imposition of a one-year mandatory prison term upon an offender under division (B)(1)(a) (iii) of section 2929.14 of the Revised Code is precluded unless the indictment, count in the indictment, or information charging the offense specifies that the offender had a firearm on or about the offender's person or under the offender's control while committing the offense. The specification shall be stated at the end of...

...(A) Imposition of a six-year mandatory prison term upon an offender under division (B)(1)(a)(i) of section 2929.14 of the Revised Code is precluded unless the indictment, count in the indictment, or information charging the offense specifies that the offender had a firearm that is an automatic firearm or that was equipped with a firearm muffler or suppressor on or about the offender's person or under the offender's c...

...(A) Imposition of a three-year mandatory prison term upon an offender under division (B)(1)(a) (ii) of section 2929.14 of the Revised Code is precluded unless the indictment, count in the indictment, or information charging the offense specifies that the offender had a firearm on or about the offender's person or under the offender's control while committing the offense and displayed the firearm, brandished the firea...