State v. Dodson

Citations

• 2025 Ohio 1733

Syllabus

Consecutive sentences; child sexual assault material; manifest weight; sufficiency of the evidence; pandering sexually oriented material involving a minor; possessing criminal tools. Judgment affirmed. Appellant's convictions for pandering sexually oriented material involving a minor and possessing criminal tools were supported by sufficient evidence and not against the manifest weight of the evidence. The trial court made the statutory findings necessary to impose consecutive sentences, and we cannot say that the trial court's sentence clearly and convincingly was unsupported by the record. The appellant was on postrelease control for similar crimes when he committed the crimes in this case. The court noted that appellant committed the worst form of the offense and disseminated child sexual assault material on his computer. Appellant's sentence on each of his crimes is not disproportionally long, and he has failed to demonstrate that the record did not support the imposition of consecutive sentences that totaled 41 years in prison.