State v. Johnson

Citations

• 256 N.E.3d 312
• 2024 Ohio 5098

Syllabus

Jury Instruction; affirmative defense; entrapment; evidence; harmless error; bribery; manifest weight. Trial court properly refused to provide a jury instruction on the affirmative defense of entrapment where the evidence did not support an entrapment defense. Trial court's decision not to instruct a witness to stop using the words \bribe\ or \bribery payment\ was not improper because the words \bribe\ and \bribery payment\ are commonly understood and did not amount to legal conclusions. Defendant's bribery convictions were not against the manifest weight of the evidence where video evidence clearly showed the defendant accepting cash in exchange for fake police reports.