State v. McKinney

Citations

• 2024 Ohio 4642

Syllabus

Ineffective assistance of counsel-trial counsel did not fail to provide the effective assistance of counsel-sufficient evidence supported appellant's eight rape convictions and convictions were not against the manifest weight of the evidence; the victim testified that appellant engaged in eight distinct acts of rape and appellant admitted that he had engaged in fellatio and vaginal intercourse with the victim-allied offenses of similar import-the trial court did not plainly err by failing to merge eight rape offenses when evidence failed to show that appellant committed the offenses separately or with a separate animus.