State v. Jones

Citations

• 2024 Ohio 4538

Syllabus

SUFFICIENCY OF THE EVIDENCE; IDENTITY; COMPLICITY TO ATTEMPTED MURDER; KIDNAPPING; FELONIOUS ASSAULT; AGGRAVATED BURGLARY; ALLIED OFFENSES OF SIMILAR IMPORT; SENTENCING; CONSECUTIVE SENTENCES; INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF TRIAL COUNSEL; MOTION FOR NEW TRIAL; CRIM.R. 33. The defendant-appellant's complicity-to-attempted-murder, kidnapping, felonious-assault, and aggravated-burglary convictions are based on sufficient evidence. The defendant-appellant's complicity-to-attempted-murder, kidnapping, felonious-assault, and aggravated-burglary convictions are not allied offenses of similar import. The trial court made the appropriate R.C. 2929.14(C)(4) findings before imposing consecutive sentences and incorporated those findings into its sentencing entry and those findings are not clearly and convincingly unsupported by the record. The defendant-appellant's trial counsel was not ineffective for failing to object to the jury pool. The trial court did not abuse its discretion by denying the defendant-appellant's motion for new trial under Crim.R. 33(A)(1), (4).