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| Case Caption | Case No. | Topics and Issues | Author | Citation / County | Decided | Posted | WebCite |
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State v. Grevious
| CA2018-05-093 | The trial court did not abuse its discretion in denying appellant's motion to sever where the charges against appellant were all connected and the evidence supporting the various charges was simple and direct. The trial court did not abuse its discretion in admitting evidence of the underlying premeditated murder because the state was required to show that the murder actually occurred in order to charge appellant with complicity. The trial court did not abuse its discretion by admitting evidence that a witness made an identification of appellant from a photographic lineup during the investigation into the victim's murder where the lineup was compliant with R.C. 2933.83. Appellant was not denied his right to effective assistance of counsel where counsel's decision to withdraw a motion to suppress was not deficient conduct because appellant lacked standing to challenge the search and seizure of evidence from a home in which appellant did not live. R.C. 2929.03 is constitutional, and appellant has not suffered a violation of his equal protection rights, because Ohio has a rational basis for treating the worst felony offenders from other felony offenders when sentencing. | Piper | Butler |
5/20/2019
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5/20/2019
| 2019-Ohio-1932 |
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State v. Saunders
| CA2019-01-001 | Anders no error. | Per Curiam | Clermont |
5/20/2019
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5/20/2019
| 2019-Ohio-1933 |
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State v. Carney
| CA2018-08-102 | Trial court reasonably determined that appellant had sufficient understanding of the case and the consequences of self-representation to make a knowing, voluntary, and intelligent waiver of counsel. | Ringland | Warren |
5/20/2019
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5/20/2019
| 2019-Ohio-1934 |
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Hodge v. Callinan
| CA2018-07-073 | Probate court did not inappropriately apply the law-of-the-case doctrine where several relevant issues were affirmed in a prior appeal and the trial court appropriately considered all relevant evidence in granting summary judgment. | Ringland | Warren |
5/13/2019
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5/13/2019
| 2019-Ohio-1836 |
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State v. Williams
| CA2018-09-069; CA2018-09-070 | Defendant's postconviction relief petitions were properly denied on the basis of res judicata where defendant did not file a direct appeal. | M. Powell | Clermont |
5/13/2019
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5/13/2019
| 2019-Ohio-1835 |
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State v. Trammell
| CA2018-02-028; CA2018-02-029 | Anders no error. | Per Curiam | Butler |
5/13/2019
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5/13/2019
| 2019-Ohio-1830 |
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State v. Villani
| CA2018-04-080 | Criminal law—ineffective assistance of counsel. Appellant's ineffective assistance of counsel claim lacks merit. Appellant could not demonstrate his trial counsel's actions were deficient or prejudicial when counsel: did not object to statements by the judge, hearsay testimony, or the prosecutor's leading question; did not request jury instructions for lesser included offenses; did not request the court poll the jury; or conceded guilt during opening statement and closing argument | Hendrickson | Butler |
5/13/2019
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5/13/2019
| 2019-Ohio-1831 |
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Stewart v. Bear's Tire
| CA2018-08-162 | Bureau of Workers' Compensation appeals trial court's decision finding injured worker entitled to participate in compensation fund. Worker was company president. Company provided mobile commercial tire changing services. President injured while traveling to breakfast meeting with company employee, commercial tire changer. At meeting, president intended to direct the employee to work at apartments owned by president's separate company. Trial court affirmed where president's injury was received in the course of and arose out of employment. Evidence indicated tire changing business was slow and president was travelling to meet with the employee for morale-boosting breakfast with hope that tire service call would occur. If no call occurred, president intended to direct the employee to work at the apartments. Retaining highly-skilled employees by ensuring full-time wages was a benefit to the tire changing business when business increased in the spring and summer. | M. Powell | Butler |
5/13/2019
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5/13/2019
| 2019-Ohio-1832 |
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In re K.M.
| CA2019-01-015 | The juvenile court did not err by granting legal custody of appellant's daughter to a children services agency rather than appellant or the child's paternal aunt and uncle where granting permanent custody was in the child's best interest when considering that removing the child from her foster home would possibly, if not probably, cause the child to suffer additional trauma due to the uncertainty she had faced while in foster care for what was now one-third of her young life. | S. Powell | Butler |
5/13/2019
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5/13/2019
| 2019-Ohio-1833 |
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State v. Walston
| CA2018-04-068 | Subject-matter jurisdiction exists where the complaint complies with the requirements of Criminal Rule 3. Evidence of conviction was sufficient where the state presented testimony which established each element of R.C. 955.22(C)(1). | Piper | Butler |
5/6/2019
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5/6/2019
| 2019-Ohio-1699 |
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