Courts on AI / Algorithms in criminal justice
State v. Booker
Ohio Court of Appeals, First Appellate District · State appellate courts · OH · · 2026-Ohio-3371 · No. C-250699 · opinion
The Ohio appellate court considers a suppression challenge arising from ShotSpotter and real-time crime-center surveillance. It describes how police used automated gunshot detection and video to locate suspects before affirming the search and conviction.
- Disposition
- The court affirmed denial of suppression and affirmed Booker’s conviction.
What the court wrote
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The Cincinnati Police Department deploys surveillance technology to monitor Cincinnati’s residents and visitors. Cincinnati Police Officer Benjamin Williamson testified that ShotSpotter detected the sound of gunshots at the intersection of Vine Street and Green Street, and then on Republic Street, in Cincinnati. To Williamson, the sound and speed of the gunshots suggested a firearm larger than a handgun. Williamson called the Cincinnati Police Department’s Real- Time Crime Center (“Crime Center”), which sent Williamson video footage of a gunman with a bookbag firing a rifle “towards Vine Street.” Williamson testified that the gunman had an accomplice, who was carrying a handgun and wearing a “camouflage jacket.” The two fled and “ducked down behind a tan SUV that was parked” on a public street. He described that area as Cincinnati’s “most violent . . . open-air drug market.
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