State v. Akins

Citations

• 2025 Ohio 5632

Syllabus

Sufficiency of the evidence; manifest weight of the evidence; merger of offenses; Brady violation; consecutive sentences. Judgment affirmed. The record demonstrates that appellant's convictions were supported by sufficient evidence and were not against the manifest weight of the evidence. The trial court did not err in refusing to merge his failure-to-comply convictions because the offenses were dissimilar in import or significance. The trial court also did not err in denying appellant's motion for a mistrial based on an alleged Brady violation because the lost evidence was not material evidence within the meaning of Brady. The trial court's imposition of consecutive sentences for appellant's two aggravated-vehicular-assault convictions was proper because this court could not clearly and convincingly find that the record did not support the trial court's findings.