State v. Ferguson

Citations

• 2022 Ohio 1648

Syllabus

The trial court did not err in excluding evidence concerning two 911 calls made by the victim the trial court did not plainly err by conducting portions of the trial outside of his presence the trial court did not plainly err by instructing the jury that it could consider Ferguson's flight from the scene as consciousness of his own guilt the trial court did not plainly err by instructing the jury that a knife is a deadly weapon the evidence was sufficient to support his convictions for murder, felony murder, tampering with evidence, and domestic violence, and the verdicts for same are not against the manifest weight of the evidence. The trial court erred, however, in ordering Ferguson to serve consecutive sentences without making the requisite findings at the sentencing hearing, and further erred when it imposed post-release control on him. Judgment reversed and cause remanded for further proceedings.