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State v. Mills
| CA2026-02-026 | Anders no error. | Per Curiam | Butler |
7/20/2026
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7/20/2026
| 2026-Ohio-2759 |
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State v. Simmons
| CA2024-11-024 | Trial court's failure to inform the offender during the plea hearing that it would consider his criminal history at sentencing did not render his guilty plea less than knowing, intelligent, and voluntary. The offender's prison sentence was not based upon impermissible considerations because the trial court considered a 20-year-old felony conviction. | M. Powell | Madison |
7/20/2026
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7/20/2026
| 2026-Ohio-2761 |
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State v. Arnette
| CA2025-05-037; CA2025-03-038 | Counsel was not ineffective for failing to move for acquittal on venue where the motion would have failed. Venue may be proven by all the facts and circumstances, and testimony establishing the county of each offense, together with the course-of-conduct venue statute, made venue proper for all counts. Convictions were not against the manifest weight of the evidence where the victim's testimony established each offense. Such review is confined to the record of the trial under review and does not permit comparison with an earlier trial that ended in a hung jury. Trial court did not commit plain error in admitting expert testimony on the dynamics of delayed disclosure where the expert does not opine that the victim is truthful. The testimony's value in dispelling common misconceptions was not substantially outweighed by unfair prejudice. Prosecutor's misconduct did not deny appellant a fair trial where an improper remark directed to person in the gallery was harmless. Arguing that appellant's apology to the victim showed consciousness of guilt was a permissible inference from admitted evidence. Trial court did not err in its jury instructions where consciousness-of-guilt instruction rests on admitted evidence and court tells the jury it can disregard the conduct if it found another motive. Directing the jury to reread instructions that answered its question is within the court's discretion. Counsel was not ineffective for proceeding by stipulation rather than calling a witness to testify. The decision was a matter of trial strategy, justified on the record. The claim also failed for want of prejudice, where the first trial's hung jury proved nothing and the two trials rested on different evidence. | M. Powell | Butler |
7/20/2026
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7/20/2026
| 2026-Ohio-2757 |
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State v. Luckett
| CA2026-01-012; CA2026-01-013 | The jury's verdicts finding appellant guilty of domestic violence and violating a protection order were not against the manifest weight of the evidence, where the jury, as the trier of fact, believed the victim's trial testimony and disbelieved the trial testimony offered by the appellant. | Piper | Butler |
7/20/2026
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7/20/2026
| 2026-Ohio-2758 |
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Alum Cliff Industries, L.L.C. v. Hickory Woods Home Owners' Assn., Inc.
| CA2025-04-033 | Homebuilder and homeowners appeal summary judgment decision in favor of homeowners' association ("HOA"). Decision enforced a restrictive covenant. Restrictive covenant was properly executed based on language in HOA declaration. Summary judgment improperly rendered against homeowners where HOA failed to submit evidentiary materials establishing chain-of-title between covenant and homeowners. WITH OPINION DISSENTING IN PART AND CONCURRING IN PART. | Byrne | Butler |
7/20/2026
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7/20/2026
| 2026-Ohio-2756 |
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