State v. Price

Citations

• 2019 Ohio 1642

Syllabus

Burrage instruction, sufficiency, manifest weight, R.C. 2925.02(A)(3), corrupting another with drugs, furnish, serious physical harm, proximate cause, R.C. 2921.12, tampering with evidence, merger, consecutive sentences, exculpatory evidence. The trial court did not abuse its discretion in failing to give Price's requested Burrage instruction because it included a proper causation instruction to the jury. Price's convictions for corrupting another with drugs and tampering with evidence were supported by sufficient evidence and were not against the manifest weight of the evidence. The trial court erred in failing to merge Price's convictions for corrupting another with drugs, which constitute allied offenses of similar import because the convictions were supported by a single course of conduct, resulted in the same harm, and were not committed with separate animuses or motivations. Price's assignment of error challenging his consecutive sentences is moot. The trial court did not abuse its discretion in excluding the victim's medical records, and there was no Crim.R. 16 violation.