State v. Smith

Citations

• 2020 Ohio 5119

Syllabus

Defendant failed to show material prejudice by trial court's exclusion of extrinsic evidence of victim's memory deficit where victim, herself, admitted that she suffered brain damage that affected her ability to recall certain events. Also, although trial counsel was deficient for agreeing that jury should be instructed under former version of self-defense statute, defendant failed to establish any prejudice because the evidence did not \tend to support\ that he acted in self-defense.