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State of Ohio v. Abdullah M. Alqahtani

Ohio Court of Appeals, Third District · State appellate courts · OH · · 2026-Ohio-1335 · No. 2-25-11 · opinion

Fabricated or misquoted citations

The Ohio Court of Appeals, Third District on 2026-04-13 affirmed the traffic conviction, assessed appellate costs, and noted that some of the appellant’s cited cases did not seem to exist in State of Ohio v. Abdullah M. Alqahtani. The self-represented appellant filed a submission with one fabricated case citation, one mischaracterized case citation, and one misstated legal rule.

Disposition
The court affirmed the traffic conviction, assessed appellate costs, and noted that some of the appellant’s cited cases did not seem to exist.
Recorded conduct
The self-represented appellant filed a submission with one fabricated case citation, one mischaracterized case citation, and one misstated legal rule. — outcome: other; actor: litigant in person
Canonical record
Incident tracker entry — verified outcome, regulator disposition and related rules

What the court wrote

Verbatim from the court's document (public domain). Ellipses mark omitted text; nothing is paraphrased.

” Prof. Cond. R. 8. 4(c)-(d). “It is well established that courts possess inherent authority to manage proceedings essential to their function, to control the conduct of those who appear before them, and to sanction conduct that abuses the judicial process. ” State v. Coleman, 2026-Ohio-965, ¶ 39 (11th Dist. ). Striking a filing containing fabricated and misplaced authority is an appropriate remedy a court could employ. See, id. at ¶103-104. 2 Appellant incorrectly cites R. C. 4511. 091 as the source for this rule. While R. C. 4511. 091 addresses the arrest of an individual based on radar and other devices, it does not place such a burden on the prosecution as Alqahtani claims. 3 Moreover, Alqahtani fails to offer any support for the notion that an officer must state the reason for a traffic stop before requesting identification from a driver, nor can we find any such requirement in the law to that effect.

Authorities cited in the passage: State v. Coleman, 2026-Ohio-965, ¶ 39 (11th Dist

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