The Seventh District affirmed an attempted murder conviction and 14-year sentence, finding no plain error in the admission of a victim’s video-taped statement, commercial trucking company videos, and electronic log data.
The Seventh District held that a Civ.R. 60(B) motion does not extend the appeal deadline under App.R. 4(B), even when captioned as a Civ.R. 59 motion, leaving five of six assignments of error challenging a custody modification beyond the court’s jurisdiction.
The Seventh District affirmed a transfer of custody jurisdiction from Ohio to Virginia under the UCCJEA, holding that contractual jurisdiction-retention clauses carry little weight when neither party nor the children reside in the forum county.
The Seventh District affirmed summary judgment for the City of Salem in an employment discrimination case, holding that a part-time dispatcher failed to show the city’s performance-based reasons for his termination were pretextual despite evidence of gender-biased comments by his supervisor.