State v. Johnson

Citations

• 2018 Ohio 165

Syllabus

Manifest weight sufficiency of the evidence Evid.R. 404(B) other acts evidence R.C. 2929.14 controlled buy circumstantial evidence. Defendant-appellant's convictions for trafficking, drug possession, and possession of criminal tools was supported by the weight and sufficiency of the evidence. The circumstantial evidence presented by the state was sufficient to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that defendant-appellant had possessed and sold the drugs recovered from the informants. Defendant-appellant did not put forth any showing to overcome the presumption that the jury followed the court's curative instruction regarding other acts evidence, nor did defendant-appellant articulate that this error resulted in such prejudice to warrant a mistrial. The trial court made the required findings under R.C. 2929.14(C) to support its imposition of consecutive sentences and incorporated these findings in its sentencing journal entry as required by State v. Bonnell, 140 Ohio St.3d 209, 2014 Ohio 3177, 16 N.E.3d 659.