State v. McCann

Citations

• 2025 Ohio 966

Syllabus

Ineffective assistance of counsel; objections; trial strategy; consecutive sentences; R.C. 2929.14(C)(4). Judgment affirmed. Trial counsel's purported failure to object to a witness's testimony amounts to a trial strategy that, even if debatable, does not rise to the level of ineffective assistance. Moreover, the defendant fails to establish that trial counsel's alleged deficient performance prejudiced the defense. Accordingly, we cannot say that the defendant received ineffective assistance of trial counsel. Further, we find that the trial court engaged in the proper analysis, considered the required statutory criteria, and made the necessary findings before imposing consecutive sentences. The record clearly supports the trial court's findings that consecutive sentences were appropriate in this case.