State v. Smith

Citations

• 2022 Ohio 4687

Syllabus

Defendant-appellant's convictions are supported by sufficient evidence. Defendant-appellant's convictions are not against the manifest weight of the evidence. Defendant-appellant failed to establish that he received ineffective assistance of counsel. The trial court did not commit plain error by allowing a law enforcement officer to offer lay opinion testimony concerning the cause of an abrasion observed on defendant-appellant's forehead. The trial court did not violate defendant-appellant's right to confront the witnesses against him by admitting an unavailable declarant's statement under the forfeiture by wrongdoing exception. The indefinite-sentencing provisions of the Reagan Tokes Law do not infringe upon defendant-appellant's right of due process.