State v. Goodson

Citations

• 2026 Ohio 1495

Syllabus

Though a criminal defendant's trial counsel provided deficient performance by filing a motion to suppress more than three months after the deadline for doing so, the defendant's ineffective-assistance claim comes up short where she cannot show that she was prejudiced or harmed by her attorney's deficient performance. The defendant had no reasonable probability of success on some issues raised in the tardy suppression motion, and she had no reasonable probability of winning at trial even had she succeeded on the other arguments in that motion.