State v. Collins

Citations

• 2020 Ohio 3126

Syllabus

Because the evidence presented at trial was insufficient to support a jury instruction on self-defense or the castle doctrine, the trial court did not abuse its discretion in failing to so instruct the jury. Trial court was not ineffective in failing to request a jury instruction on voluntary manslaugter where defendant's testimony that he ws scared and feared for his life undermined any claim that he acted out of sudden passion or fit of rage. Trial counsel was not ineffective in failing to object to the continued use of the word \victim\ by the state and its witnesses trial court, at trial counsel's request, instructed the jury that it was not to draw any inference of appellant's guilt from past use of the term \victim.\