State v. Whitt

Citations

• 2025 Ohio 424

Syllabus

Sufficient Evidence; Manifest Weight; Aggravated Possession of Drugs; Failure to Comply with an Order or Signal of a Police Officer; Tampering with Evidence. A sufficiency-of-the-evidence challenge argues that the State did not carry its burden of production at trial. A manifest-weight challenge argues that the State did not carry its burden of persuasion at trial. A jury could find that the defendant knew that an official investigation was likely or about to be instituted where the defendant began making sudden movements as soon as a police officer activated his lights to effectuate a traffic stop before he (the defendant) sped away from the police cruiser.