State v. Morgan

Citations

• 2022 Ohio 2932

Syllabus

APPELLATE REVIEW — CRIMINAL MOOTNESS — COLLATERAL CONSEQUENCES — CHILD ENDANGERMENT — R.C.2919.22(A) — EVIDENCE: The defendant's appeal challenging his misdemeanor conviction for child endangerment is not moot where collateral consequences exist and the record indicates that the defendant was a party to an existing child custody dispute, which necessarily involves the trial court considering a child endangerment conviction. The state's evidence was sufficient to support defendant's conviction for child endangerment under R.C. 2919.22(A) when the state's witness testified that the father threw his child at an unsuspecting police officer and fled from the scene after the child hit a countertop, fell onto a tiled floor, and cried out.