The Fifth District affirmed a felonious assault conviction arising from an attack at a juvenile correctional facility, holding that inconsistent verdicts between co-defendants do not invalidate a guilty verdict and that the evidence supported a finding of serious physical harm.
The Eighth District affirmed summary judgment for Winking Lizard Tavern and Cintas on a slip-and-fall claim, finding the floor mat hazard was open and obvious and the plaintiff failed to demonstrate a genuine issue of material fact on the attendant-circumstances exception.
The Ninth District dismissed the State’s appeal of a trial court’s refusal to compel witness testimony, holding that R.C. 2945.44 requires full transactional immunity and that the State’s offer excluding murder was insufficient to compel testimony over a Fifth Amendment invocation.
The Ninth District affirmed a murder conviction, holding that the defendant forfeited jury instruction challenges by failing to object and that Ohio’s self-defense presumption under R.C. 2901.05(B)(2) was unavailable because the victim had a right to be in the residence.
The First District affirmed a juvenile delinquency adjudication for felonious assault, holding that FaceTime-based identification combined with social media confirmation was sufficient and that DYS commitment was appropriate for a first-time offender who fired a gun at a victim.
The First District affirmed an OVI conviction, holding that probable cause to arrest does not require completed standardized field sobriety tests when the totality of officer observations supports impairment.
The Fifth District affirmed sexual battery and strangulation convictions, finding that the victim’s testimony, corroborated by SANE nurse examination, supported the trial court’s credibility determination in a bench trial.
The Third District reversed eight of nine rape convictions involving a minor victim, holding that the State failed to present sufficient evidence to distinguish each count as a separate act, while affirming convictions on one rape count and two gross sexual imposition counts.
The Eleventh District affirmed the dismissal of abuse, neglect, and dependency allegations against prospective adoptive parents of an infant with multiple serious medical conditions, holding that the trial court properly excluded an expert witness for failure to comply with Civ.R. 26(B)(7)(c) and that the dismissal was supported by the manifest weight of the evidence.