State v. Mead

Citations

• 2021 Ohio 1107

Syllabus

CONSTITUTIONAL LAW/CRIMINAL – SPEEDY TRIAL –AUTHENTICATION – EVID.R. 404(B) – OTHER ACTS: The trial court did not deprive defendant of a fair trial when it compelled him to wear the same clothes for four consecutive days of trial. The trial court did not err in denying defendant's motion to dismiss the complaint on speedy-trial grounds: the state's inaction was not enough to outweigh the absence of particularized trial prejudice. Sufficient testimony from the victim was presented to authenticate the duplicate recordings of phone calls between the victim and defendant. The trial court did not err in permitting the victim to testify about d4efendant's threats and other acts of domestic violence where the evidence was not premised on improper character inferences and was probative of the victim's credibility.