State v. Shaw

Citations

• 2025 Ohio 301

Syllabus

The trial court did not commit plain error when it failed to refer to one of appellant's felonious assault counts in the self-defense jury instruction. The jury's rejection of appellant's self-defense claim for his convicted offenses was not against the manifest weight of the evidence. The trial court did not err by failing to merge a felonious assault count with other felonious assault counts and appellant's felony murder conviction, as appellant had committed that felonious assault separately from the other felonious assaults. Also, the record of the sentencing hearing establishes that the trial court engaged in the correct analysis for imposing consecutive sentences and that the trial court's consecutive-sentence findings were supported by the record. Judgment affirmed.