State v. Barahona-Lara

Citations

• 2024 Ohio 3048

Syllabus

Defendant's rape convictions are supported by sufficient evidence and are not against the manifest weight of the evidence where the victim's testimony, if believed, established the element of penetration. The trial court did not commit plain error in admitting evidence of defendant's plan to leave the country where the evidence established defendant was planning to flee to avoid apprehension and subsequent arrest, and such evidence is admissible as evidence of consciousness of guilt. Defendant's ineffective assistance of counsel claim fails where he did not show that his counsel's performance was deficient or that he suffered any prejudice due to the alleged deficiencies.