Ohio Supreme Court· 1/20/1999

State v. Goodwin

Citations

84 Ohio St. 3d 331
703 N.E.2d 1251

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holding that shooting in the head at point-blank range showed that the defendant killed the victim purposely despite defendant’s claim that the “gun just went off”
observing that murder under R.C. 2903.02 is a lesser-included offense of aggravated murder under R.C. 2903.01 [A], and the sole difference is that the element of \prior calculation and design\ is absent from murder
finding no improper influence where the judge heard an improper victim-impact statement but the sentencing opinion did not refer to the statement
counsel’s decision “not to question jurors further” about their death-penalty views was an “exercise of then-discretionary judgment”

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Judges: Cook, Douglas, Moyer, Pfeifer, Resnick, Stratton, Sweeney

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