State v. Kesman

Citations

• 2025 Ohio 5643

Syllabus

On appeal from convictions for endangering children and the denial of a motion for new trial. Appellant's convictions were not against the manifest weight of the evidence; the trial court did not lose its way in resolving conflicts in the evidence and believing the victims' accounts. The fact that two of the victims were in contact with each other prior to trial was not material to appellant's guilt. The claims of one victim's bias and fabrication in 2022 was undermined by that victim's consistent allegations in 2020. Appellee's failure to disclose the victims' contact and one victim's alleged cause for bias did not cause reversible error under Brady or Giglio. The trial court did not abuse its discretion in denying the motion for new trial based on new evidence that two of the victims attempted to coordinate their trial testimony; additional testimony from the same source indicated that the victims' testimony was truthful notwithstanding the coordination. Judgment affirmed.