State v. Santana

Citations

• 2022 Ohio 4118

Syllabus

The trial court did not abuse its discretion in excluding evidence of past trespasses on appellant's property where the evidence was remote in time and did not involve the trespassers involved in the current case. Even if the trial court had allowed this evidence to be presented to the jury, no reasonable jury could have found that appellant acted in self-defense where he was the first aggressor. The trial court did not abuse its discretion in allowing the State to play recordings of appellant's interviews with the police where appellant failed to establish unfair prejudice. Appellant's convictions for murder and felonious assault were supported by the evidence and were not against the manifest weight of the evidence. Judgment affirmed.