State v. Saunders

Citations

• 2017 Ohio 8557

Syllabus

ASSAULT - EVIDENCE - WITNESSES - CREDIBILITY - ALLOCUTION - SENTENCING: Defendant's conviction for assault was supported by sufficient evidence where the victim testified that defendant had started the fight and had repeatedly hit and kicked him, and the trial court specifically found the victim's testimony to be more credible than defendant's testimony. Defendant's sentence must be reversed and the cause remanded for resentencing, because the trial court denied defendant's right of allocution where the court failed to personally address defendant and allow him the opportunity to speak.