State v. Evans

Citations

• 2017 Ohio 8184

Syllabus

The trial court's statements to the jury on Monday that its goal was to complete the trial by Thursday, and several rulings that were contrary to the appellant do not constitute judicial bias and did not deprive the appellant of his due-process right to a fair trial. The trial court did not err in declining to suppress statements the appellant made to a corrections officer while being booked into jail. The trial court did not err in denying a motion the appellant made under Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S 79, 106 S.Ct. 1712, 90 L.Ed.2d 69 (1986), during jury selection. The trial court did not err in permitting a deputy coroner, who had performed almost 4,000 autopsies, to testify as an expert regarding the cause of a child's death. The fact that deputy coroner was not board certified did not disqualify him as an expert. The jury's verdict is neither based on legally insufficient evidence nor against the manifest weight of the evidence. Judgment affirmed. (Donovan, J., concurring).