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Public Intoxication Requires a "Public Place"

February 22, 2010

Posted In: Evidence (Sufficiency)

By Robert Alan Brenner on February 22, 2010 4:30 PM |

The Eleventh District Court of Appeals of Ohio reversed a conviction for public intoxication because the defendant was intoxicated on private property. The trial court reasoned that the private property was "public" because it was accessible to the public. But the Court of Appeals said that such reasoning "would render virtually all private property public." Read the decision by clicking here.

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