State v. Russell

Citations

• 2020 Ohio 5108

Syllabus

Where appellant claims to have been entrapped, defense counsel did not provide ineffective assistance at trial by failing to object to other-acts evidence that was relevant to appellant's predisposition to sell cocaine, and the trial court did not err in allowing the State to introduce other-acts evidence related to appellant's predisposition to sell cocaine. The jury's rejection of an entrapment defense was not against the manifest weight of the evidence. The trial court did not err in convicting appellant where the State presented evidence that the substance he sold and possessed on a particular occasion was cocaine. The trial court did not err by proceeding with trial and sentencing in appellant's absence after he voluntarily failed to appear. Judgment affirmed.