State v. Johnson

Citations

• 2025 Ohio 5571

Syllabus

Self-Defense; Defense of Another; R.C. 2901.05(B)(1); R.C. 2901.05(B)(2); R.C. 2901.09(B). The jury did not clearly lose its way and create a manifest miscarriage of justice in resolving conflicts in the evidence by concluding Johnson's actions were not in self-defense or in defense of another. The trial court did not commit plain error in failing to give an unrequested jury instruction on a presumption of self-defense. The trial court did not commit plain error in failing to give an unrequested jury instruction on aggravated assault as an inferior-degree offense to felonious assault.