State v. Thomas

Citations

• 2025 Ohio 4895

Syllabus

Appellant's conviction for aggravated murder was supported by sufficient evidence and not against the manifest weight of the evidence where testimony and evidence was presented at trial firmly establishing that appellant had shot and killed the victim with prior calculation and design and that such evidence establishing appellant had acted with prior calculation and design, which included posts that appellant had made to Facebook, was properly admitted by the trial court at trial as relevant other-acts evidence. However, the trial court's imposition of consecutive sentences was contrary to law where the trial court failed to make the necessary consecutive sentence findings, thereby necessitating reversal of the trial court's decision sentencing appellant to a total, aggregate sentence of 40 to 42 years to life in prison and remand to the trial court for the limited purpose of resentencing.