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A.W.R. v. S.L.R.

114275

record on appeal, App.R. 9, App.R. 12(A)(1)(b), Rules of Superintendence, judicial disqualification, receivership, R.C. 2735.04, lis pendens, invited error.

Stevenson

Cuyahoga

8/13/2026

2026-Ohio-3111

A.W.R. v. S.L.R.

114321

record on appeal, App.R. 9, App.R. 12(A)(1)(b), Rules of Superintendence, judicial disqualification, receivership, R.C. 2735.04, lis pendens, invited error.

Stevenson

Cuyahoga

8/13/2026

2026-Ohio-3112

State v. Ward

115488

Conspiracy to commit aggravated murder; indictment; sufficiency of the evidence; jury instructions; plain error; admissibility of opinion testimony; cumulative error. Defendant’s conviction for conspiracy to commit aggravated murder affirmed. The indictment for conspiracy sufficiently alleged a substantial overt act. The State presented sufficient circumstantial evidence of a substantial overt act and agreement to commit murder when evidence showed that the defendant allowed unknown persons to use his rental car in this drive-by shooting. The court’s jury instruction regarding conspiracy properly recited the State’s burden of proof at trial and did not usurp the jury’s role as factfinder. Although a police officer’s opinion testimony about the defendant’s guilt is inadmissible at trial, the defendant failed to identify any opinion testimony by the police officer and we found no such testimony in the trial transcript. Having found no trial error, we also find no cumulative error.

E.A. Gallagher

Cuyahoga

8/13/2026

2026-Ohio-3113

State v. Ayers-Moore

115652

Discretionary bindover; involuntary manslaughter, drive-by shooting; complicity; amenability; probable cause; guilty plea; jointly recommended sentence; R.C. 2953.08(D). Affirmed. The trial court properly considered the fact that the defendant, who facilitated the drive-by shooting by driving codefendants to and from the scene, was not the shooter as a factor during the amenability hearing, but the one factor is not dispositive of the decision to relinquish jurisdiction to the felony court. Further, the jointly recommended sentence is not reviewable under R.C. 2953.08(D) and the defendant was advised that his jointly recommended term included the imposition of the maximum term as required under R.C. 2929.144 for the qualifying offenses.

S. Gallagher

Cuyahoga

8/13/2026

2026-Ohio-3114

State v. McCargo

115704

Presentence motion to withdraw a guilty plea; pro se litigant; Crim.R. 32.1; ineffective assistance of counsel; coerced plea; trial strategy; knowingly, intelligently, and voluntarily entered a guilty plea. The trial court did not abuse its discretion when it denied defendant-appellant’s presentence motion to withdraw his guilty plea. The defendant-appellant did not submit evidence to rebut the record and show that but for his defense counsel’s actions he would not have entered his guilty plea. The record demonstrates defendant-appellant entered a knowing, intelligent, and voluntary plea.

Clary

Cuyahoga

8/13/2026

2026-Ohio-3115

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