State v. Billips

Citations

• 2025 Ohio 108

Syllabus

Sufficiency; manifest weight; circumstantial evidence; inference stacking; aiding and abetting; complicity; R.C. 2923.03(A)(2); felony murder; R.C. 2903.02(B); mens rea; hearsay; Evid.R. 803(3); abuse of discretion; nontestimonial statements; Confrontation Clause; Crim.R. 52(A), harmless error; Crim.R. 52(B); plain error; ineffective assistance of counsel; cumulative error; consecutive sentences; R.C. 2929.14(C)(4), findings. Judgment affirmed. There was sufficient evidence that appellant aided and abetted in the drive-by shooting that resulted in the death of a 13-year-old child. Cell phone data, traffic cameras, license plate readers, and photographs all tied appellant to the crimes. His convictions were not against the manifest weight of the evidence, there was no cumulative error, and his attorney was not ineffective for failing to object to unrecorded sidebar conferences. The court considered appellant's young age in sentencing. The trial court made all the requisite findings to support consecutive sentences.