In re T.S.

Citations

• 2026 Ohio 2050

Syllabus

JUVENILE — DELINQUENCY — JUV.R. 40(D)(6) — ASSAULT — SUFFICIENCY — MANIFEST WEIGHT: The juvenile court did not err in failing to assign juvenile's delinquency case to another magistrate where nothing in the record undermined the general presumption that the assigned magistrate could and would separate information that may be considered from information that may not, or suggested the magistrate failed to do so in this case or was otherwise biased or prejudiced against the juvenile by reason of his participation in a prior contested hearing of another juvenile found delinquent for their involvement in the same incident. Juvenile's delinquency adjudication for assault was supported by sufficient evidence and was not against the manifest weight of the evidence where the delinquent juvenile admitted to repeatedly striking the victim, video evidence depicted the encounter, an eyewitness corroborated the victim's account, and the record does not demonstrate the trial court lost its way in crediting the testimony of the victim about the assault. Judgment affirmed.