State v. Simmons

Citations

• 2021 Ohio 3563

Syllabus

The trial court did not abuse its discretion by denying appellant's oral motion to continue the jury trial so that he could secure counsel where appellant made the motion shortly before the trial was scheduled to begin after appellant had unambiguously and unequivocally rejected the trial court's repeated efforts to appoint appellant with an attorney in the months leading up to trial. Additionally, appellant's conviction for two counts of assault of a corrections officer was not against the manifest weight of the evidence where the jury was presented with two conflicting versions of the incident, one from the victims and one from appellant, and chose to believe the victims' testimony, thereby rejecting appellant's claim that he had acted in self-defense. Lastly, the trial court did not err by imposing consecutive sentences for appellant's conviction of assaulting two corrections officers where the record fully supported the trial court's decision to impose consecutive sentences given appellant's criminal hi