State v. Abdalla

Citations

• 2023 Ohio 1054

Syllabus

MISTRIAL – VIOLATION OF A PROTECTION ORDER – EVIDENCE – MANIFEST WEIGHT The trial court did not abuse its discretion in overruling defendant's motion for a mistrial where the interpreters were not given the oath to make a true interpretation of the proceedings until the evidentiary portion of the trial was concluded where defendant did not establish that the translators were not qualified or that the interpreters did not properly translate the proceedings. Defendant's conviction for violating a protection order was not against the weight of the evidence where the factfinder found the victim's identification of defendant to be credible.