State v. Baker

Citations

• 2025 Ohio 2107

Syllabus

NOT GUILTY BY REASON OF INSANITY DEFENSE; MANIFEST WEIGHT OF THE EVIDENCE; WITNESS CREDIBILITY; COMPETING EXPERTS; INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE; CALLING A WITNESS TO TESTIFY. The defendant-appellant's aggravated murder and kidnapping convictions are not against the manifest weight of the evidence because the jury did not lose its way in concluding that the defendant-appellant was capable of understanding the wrongfulness of his conduct at the time of the offenses at issue in this case. The defendant-appellant's trial counsel was not ineffective for failing to call his treating physician to testify at trial.