State v. Lester

Citations

• 2020 Ohio 2988

Syllabus

The defendant-appellant's illegal-manufacturing-of-drugs conviction and engaging-in-a-pattern-of-corrupt-activity conviction are based on sufficient evidence and are not against the manifest weight of the evidence. The trial court did not commit plain error by denying the defendant-appellant's motion to sever. The trial court did not abuse its discretion in admitting certain witnesses' testimonies and did not commit plain error by admitting other witnesses' testimonies. The defendant-appellant received actual notice of the State's intention to use \other acts\ evidence at trial. Defendant-appellant's trial counsel was not ineffective. The prosecutor did not engage in misconduct in any phase of the trial. The defendant-appellant's convictions are not reversible under the cumulative-error doctrine.