State v. Lanier

Citations

• 2021 Ohio 379

Syllabus

Domestic violence effective assistance of counsel strategy manifest weight credibility contest. -Defendant failed to withstand his burden of demonstrating that counsel rendered ineffective assistance because the record reveals that counsel reviewed all evidence prior to trial. Trial counsel's decision to not use the victim's recorded phone calls could have been a matter of strategy. A conviction based on a credibility contest is not against the manifest weight when the victim's testimony is corroborated by other evidence, and the defendant's testimony is not.