State v. Gregory

Citations

• 2026 Ohio 1098

Syllabus

The trial court did not err in refusing to merge several convictions for voyeurism and illegal use of a minor or impaired person in nudity-oriented material or performance because, among other reasons, the former punishes an individual's trespass on a minor victim's reasonable expectation of privacy and is narrow in scope whereas the latter seeks to more generally combat conduct that supports or encourages the exploitation of children. As a result, each crime was of dissimilar import and could not be merged.