State v. Mitchell

Citations

• 2026 Ohio 1492

Syllabus

Convictions for aggravated murder and strangulation are not based on insufficient evidence or against manifest weight of the evidence where defendant's DNA was under victim's fingernails, defendant had a new scar by his right eye, defendant lied about the last time he saw the victim, and defendant gave an alibi for a specific time when he otherwise would not have known when the victim was killed. Aggravated murder and strangulation do not merge where offenses had dissimilar import.