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Civil law—Damages—R.C. 2315.18—As-applied constitutional challenge—Due process of law—Article I, Section 16, Ohio Constitution—Statutory cap on awards of compensatory damages for noneconomic losses se...

subject-matter jurisdiction, adjudication, abuse, neglect, factual allegations, emotional abuse, sexual abuse, ineffective assistance of counsel, testimony...

Conceded error nunc pro tunc consecutive sentences plea agreement inducement. The trial court erred in issuing a journal entry stating that the appellant pled guilty to abduction with a sexually motiv...

A criminal information is duplicitous when it charges a defendant in a single count with two or more distinct and separate criminal offenses, thereby implicating the defendant's constitutional right t...

This is a termination of parental rights case involving an almost nine-year-old child, who was removed from his parents' custody after allegations of sexual abuse, physical abuse, and a violation of t...

The defendant, Roger Dean Guin, appeals his Knox County Criminal Court jury convictions of aggravated sexual battery, rape of a child, assault, rape, incest, and sexual battery by an authority figure,...

A Knox County jury found the Defendant, John Shaffighi, guilty of aggravated rape and aggravated sexual battery from events occurring in 1992. He was sentenced to an effective term of twenty-five year...

Convicted of sexual assault in the first degree, sexual assault in the second degree, risk of injury to a child, strangulation in the first degree, threaten- ing in the second degree, and disorderly c...

Kyndra Abernathy ("Petitioner") petitioned the trial court for an order of protection against Icker Derek Barile ("Respondent"), alleging that he sexually assaulted her. After a hearing at which each ...

sufficiency, manifest weight, gross sexual imposition, disability, substantially impaired...

CRIMINAL LAW - gross sexual imposition R.C. 2907.05 ineffective assistance of counsel deficient performance defense strategy prejudice sexual contact R.C. 2907.01 maximum sentence principles and purpo...

no plain error where trial court defined sexual act to include disjunctive acts...

The Defendant, Guillermo Zapata, was convicted in the Shelby County Criminal Court of two counts of aggravated sexual battery, a Class B felony. After a sentencing hearing, the trial court merged the ...

Convicted of sexual assault in the first degree, sexual assault in the second degree, risk of injury to a child, strangulation in the first degree, threaten- ing in the second degree, and disorderly c...

The trial court did not err in denying motion to suppress evidence of crimes involving child pornography found during the execution of a search warrant. The inferences made by the judge who issued the...

In this appeal, we address principles governing the imposition of consecutive sentencing for "an offender whose record of criminal activity is extensive." Tenn. Code Ann. § 40-35-115(b)(2) (2019). Qui...