State v. Greer

Citations

• 2023 Ohio 103

Syllabus

Defendant's statements were admissions, not confession, therefore, corpus delicti rule did not require city to offer independent evidence that crime occurred before offering defendant's statements. Trial counsel's decision to advance self-defense claim, rather than argue that defendant was mischarged, was matter of strategy. City offered sufficient evidence of elements of domestic violence. Trial court misapplied self-defense standard, but error was both invited and harmless.