State v. Blanton

Citations

• 206 N.E.3d 14
• 2023 Ohio 89

Syllabus

The trial court did not err by failing to include a jury instruction on involuntary manslaughter as a lesser included offense of purposeful murder and felony murder because, under the circumstances of this case, such an instruction would have improperly duplicated the murder charges. The trial court also did not err by adding language to the standard jury instruction on appellant's blackout defense where the additional language was a correct, pertinent statement of law that applied to the facts of appellant's case. In addition, appellant's convictions were not against the manifest weight of the evidence, and the various ineffective assistance claims raised by appellant lack merit. Judgment affirmed.