The Eleventh District affirmed an OVI conviction following a guilty plea, holding that Crim.R. 11(E) for petty offenses requires only that the defendant be told a guilty plea is a complete admission of guilt, not the full constitutional rights colloquy required for serious offenses.
The Eleventh District sua sponte dismissed an appeal from a probate court’s partial summary judgment on heirship, holding that the order was not a final appealable order under R.C. 2505.02 because it resolved only one party’s rights while leaving other parties’ heirship determinations for further proceedings.
The Eleventh District reversed a finding of concealment of estate assets under R.C. 2109.50, holding that the statute applies only to property the decedent owned at the time of death, not to assets transferred during the decedent’s lifetime under a power of attorney.
The Eleventh District dismissed a mandamus petition challenging a city’s billboard moratorium, holding that the relator failed to name the building administrator (the individual with the duty to act) and that the city building department, as a non-sui juris entity, could not be a mandamus respondent.
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.
The Eleventh District affirmed summary judgment for PetSmart after a cat died during a routine nail trimming, holding that the owners failed to present evidence of a wrongful act or negligence that caused the death and that emotional distress claims are barred for loss of personal property under Ohio law.
The Eleventh District reversed and remanded for resentencing, holding that the trial court violated the defendant’s right of allocution by repeatedly interrupting her personal statement and preventing her from reading it herself, particularly where the court then penalized her perceived lack of remorse.