⚖️ Ohio Supreme Court

Criminal law—R.C. 2901.05—Affirmative defenses—Self-defense—Burden of production and burden of persuasion—Defendant has burden of production regarding self-defense claim and must produce legally suffi...

Domestic relations—Termination of parental rights—R.C. 2151.414—The proper appellate standards of review to apply in cases involving a juvenile court's decision under R.C. 2151.414 to award permanent ...

Criminal law—Sentencing—R.C. 2929.14(C)(4)—Consecutive-sentence findings—R.C. 2953.08(G)(2)—Appellate review of consecutive sentences—Motion for reconsideration granted and court of appeals' judgment ...

Criminal law—Plea hearings—Crim.R. 11(C)(2)(A)—A trial court must advise a criminal defendant on postrelease control for a prior felony, during plea hearing in a new felony case, of trial court's auth...

Criminal law—State forfeits the right to argue that a court of appeals is barred from reviewing a sentencing appeal when the state does not timely invoke a defendant's appeal waiver—R.C. 2929.11 and 2...

Criminal law—Sentencing—R.C.2929.14(C)(4)—Consecutive-sentence findings are not simply threshold findings that, once made, permit any amount of consecutively stacked individual sentences—Consecutive-s...