State v. Bradford

Citations

• 2020 Ohio 4563

Syllabus

Ineffective assistance of counsel–trial counsel did not perform ineffectively in weapons-under-disability trial by failing to file a motion to suppress evidence or by failing to object to evidence that appellant had a prior felonious assault conviction filing motion to suppress would not have had a reasonable chance of success, and successfully objecting to evidence that appellant had a prior felonious assault conviction would not have led to a different result appellant's conviction was not against the manifest weight of the evidence even though the state did not present direct evidence that appellant actually possessed a weapon instead, circumstantial evidence showed that appellant constructively possessed the weapon the weapon was located in a bedroom officers believed belonged to appellant based upon prescription pill bottles and other items that contained appellant's name.