State v. Singh

Citations

• 2021 Ohio 2158

Syllabus

The trial court properly denied appellant's motion to suppress where appellant understood English and never indicated that he did not understand the rights he was waiving by agreeing to speak with a police officer after he was apprehended. Appellant's convictions were supported by sufficient evidence and were not against the manifest weight of the evidence where he stole a car and moved the two children occupants from one part of a parking lot to the other and the children were only able to escape by falling from the moving car. The trial court erred by not making each of the three necessary findings before imposing consecutive sentences. Appellant's arguments challenging the constitutionality of the Reagan Tokes Act were forfeited by not raising such arguments to the trial court. Appellant's three convictions were not allied offenses, as the kidnapping and robbery convictions had three separate victims and the harm associated with each conviction was different. Appellant was not denied effective assista