State v. T.L.

Citations

• 2020 Ohio 3430

Syllabus

In a criminal case involving sexual assault charges, trial court did not abuse its discretion by denying challenges for cause of prospective jurors who had experienced sexual assault where the prospective jurors asserted they could be fair and impartial despite their experiences and the trial court found the prospective jurors did not evince an inability to be fair and impartial. Appellant failed to demonstrate ineffective assistance of counsel during plea negotiations where record indicated preliminary plea discussions occurred, but no negotiated plea offer was made. Appellant failed to demonstrate plain error by trial court in not creating a record of the details of the preliminary plea discussions when no negotiated plea offer was made. Claim that jury's verdicts were against the manifest weight of the evidence failed where appellant did not set forth a specific argument to support that claim.