State v. Hawkins

Citations

• 2021 Ohio 3072

Syllabus

Appellant's convictions were not against the manifest weight of the evidence where the state presented evidence that appellant was intoxicated at the time he crashed into the victims' car and caused the driver's death and serious injury to the passenger. The trial court did not commit plain error by allowing an expert witness to estimate appellant's blood alcohol content at the time of the crash even though the estimation required assumptions from the expert. Such assumptions were supported by the record and the jury was permitted to weigh the evidence but not use it as a per se indication of appellant's intoxication at the time of the crash. The trial court failed to make consecutive sentence findings at the sentencing hearing so that appellant's sentence is contrary to law.