In re S.D.

Citations

• 2020 Ohio 941

Syllabus

WEAPONS – EVIDENCE – FIREARM – OPERABILITY: The record contains sufficient circumstantial evidence that a weapon used by the juvenile in a robbery offense was an operable firearm where the evidence demonstrated that the juvenile and his codefendant approached the victim with handguns held at their sides—a position one would hold an operable firearm the victim, who believed the guns were real, was instructed not to move the juvenile had been told that one of the guns was real the codefendant had treated his gun as real and operable prior to the robbery and the juvenile and the codefendant disposed of the guns so that they could not be found and used in a subsequent prosecution.