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DEFAMATION — CONSTITUTIONAL LAW/CIVIL — ACTUAL MALICE: The trial court did not err in dismissing plaintiff's defamation claims where defendants' statements were either true or matters of opinion and t...

<bold>1. Assault — deadly weapon inflicting serious injuries — beating with</bold> <bold>hands — no fractures</bold> <block_quote> The trial court correctly denied defendant's motion to dismiss a...

CONSTITUTIONAL LAW/CRIMINAL – COUNSEL – DUE PROCESS – COMPULSORY PROCESS – EXCULPATORY EVIDENCE – CONFRONTATION CLAUSE – R.C. 2945.481 – EXPERT WITNESS – HEARSAY – EVID.R. 404(B) – MISTRIAL – INDICTME...

Criminal law—Arrest warrant—Fourth Amendment—Crim.R. 4—Court of appeals' judgment affirmed and cause remanded to the trial court....

APPELLATE REVIEW - misdemeanor conviction mootness completed jail sentence outstanding court costs. CRIMINAL LAW - CONSTITUTIONAL - waiver of right to counsel petty offense completed jail sentence moo...

Criminal law—R.C. 2945.37(G)—Competency of the accused—A trial court's error in failing to hold a mandatory competency hearing is harmless when the record, taken as a whole, fails to demonstrate suffi...

The trial court did not err in finding appellant guilty after a bench trial of three counts of sexual battery and three counts of unlawful sexual conduct with a minor, or in sentencing appellant conse...

Criminal law—Sentencing—R.C. 2929.13(F)(8) requires a trial court to impose a prison sentence on an offender convicted of a felony offense that has a corresponding firearm specification—Court of appea...

<bold>1. Rape — statutory rape — motion to dismiss — sufficiency of evidence —</bold> <bold>age — testimony</bold> <block_quote> The trial court did not err by denying defendant's motion to dismi...

CRIMINAL - Aggravated Murder Kidnapping self-defense manifest weight of the evidence sufficiency of the evidence Evid.R. 611 allied offenses merger gun specification R.C. 2929.14(B)(1)(g) multiple vic...

Criminal law—Venue—R.C. 2923.32—Venue for prosecution of defendant for engaging in a pattern of corrupt activity in violation of R.C. 2923.32 proper in county where any member of drug-selling enterpri...

Criminal law—Juvenile law—R.C. 2152.12—R.C. 2151.23—Juvenile court determined that act alleged in juvenile-court complaint was not supported by probable cause, and defendant was then indicted and conv...

CONSTITUTIONAL LAW/CRIMINAL - MIRANDA: The trial court properly denied defendant's motion to suppress his statement to police on the basis that the waiver of his Miranda rights was involuntary because...

Criminal law—Crim.R. 12(C)(2)—A trial court may consider facts beyond four corners of indictment to rule on merits of a defendant's pretrial motion to dismiss under Crim.R. 12(C)(2) when motion challe...

Criminal law—Juvenile law—R.C. 2152.84(A)(2)(b)—Due process of law—Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution—Article I, Section 16, Ohio Constitution—Fundamental fairness—R.C. 2152.84(A)(...

Criminal law—Marsy's Law, Ohio Constitution, Article I, Section 10a—Restitution—Scope of Marsy's Law is inadequate to answer whether prosecuting attorney, on behalf of the state, is entitled to appeal...

Witness's reference to defendant's "incarceration," while inappropriate, did not cause substantial prejudice to defendant's case, where the reference was isolated, the court gave a curative instructio...

A temporary restraining order is a type of injunction that is brief in duration and meant to maintain the status quo until the district court can make a determination on the merits of a petition. Afte...

CRIMINAL LAW - unlawful sexual conduct with a minor attempted sexual battery individual and aggregate felony sentences consideration and application of R.C. 2929.11 and 2929.12 consecutive sentences s...

Convicted of criminal violation of a restraining order, stalking in the second degree and harassment in the second degree, the defendant appealed to this court. The defendant had been in a relationshi...