State v. McClain

Citations

• 2025 Ohio 962

Syllabus

Substantial impairment rape; sufficiency of the evidence; hearsay; failure to object; ineffective assistance of counsel. Judgment vacated. The State failed to produce sufficient evidence that the defendant knew of the alleged victim's substantial impairment. Counsel was ineffective for not objecting to the victim's hearsay testimony that a bartender told her that other woman at the bar had been drugged, as well as other witnesses' hearsay testimony.