State v. Harris

Citations

• 2023 Ohio 1892

Syllabus

Road rage shooting inconsistent verdicts compromise deadlocked identification surveillance video Reagan Tokes Law. - Defendant's felonious assault conviction affirmed where evidence demonstrates that he was the masked gunman who shot at a vehicle, striking the passenger, following a road-rage incident. Verdicts' inconsistency was not attributed to jury confusion or doubt as to adequacy of the evidence, but possibly based on compromise or leniency because the jury was deadlocked on two occasions. Counsel was not ineffective for failing to pursue a suppression of a witness's pretrial identification because surveillance video was obtained also identifying the defendant.