Cleveland v. Neal

Citations

• 2024 Ohio 1467

Syllabus

Domestic violence sufficiency manifest weight body-camera footage Confrontation Clause. The city presented evidence that, if believed, demonstrated that appellant caused physical harm to her mother during a fight at her mother's house. Therefore, appellant's conviction was not against the manifest weight of the evidence. Appellant's conviction is also not against the sufficiency of the evidence because the trier of fact was in the best position to consider the inconsistencies between appellant's and her mother's testimony regarding the fight. Finally, the court's decision to admit into evidence the body-camera footage of a responding police officer did not violate appellant's confrontation-clause rights because the body-camera footage depicted her mother's encounter with police as the victim and she testified at trial and was subject to cross-examination.