State v. Cobb

Citations

• 2025 Ohio 1274

Syllabus

Appellant's convictions for murder and having a weapon while under disability were not against the manifest weight of the evidence and were supported by sufficient evidence. Because the State's challenge to an African-American prospective juror was for cause, Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (1986), was not implicated. The trial court did not commit plain error in admitting Evid.R. 404(B) other acts evidence. The trial court did not err by overruling appellant's motion to suppress statements he made to police officers or in failing to merge the murder and having a weapon while under disability convictions. Under the authority of State v. Bollar, 2022-Ohio-4370, the trial court did not err by imposing a three-year sentence for a firearm specification attached to a felonious assault conviction that was merged at sentencing with the murder conviction. Finally, we cannot clearly and convincingly conclude that the record did not support the trial court's consecutive sentence findings. Judgment affirmed.