12/02/2022
| Case Caption | Case No. | Topics and Issues | Author | Citation |
| State v. Nicholas | 2020-1429 | Juvenile procedure—R.C. 2152.12(B)—Discretionary transfer of a juvenile for prosecution in an adult court—R.C. 2152.12(B) by its terms establishes a preponderance-of-the-evidence standard for deciding a juvenile’s amenability—R.C. 2152.12(C)—Amenability hearings—Facts presented to a juvenile court with respect to a discretionary transfer must persuade the court that the juvenile is not amenable to care or rehabilitation in the juvenile system—State need not produce affirmative evidence of nonamenability—Juvenile court need not consider all potential juvenile dispositions, including a serious-youthful-offender disposition, when balancing the factors weighing in favor of and against discretionary transfer. | O'Connor, C.J. | Slip Opinion No. 2022-Ohio-4276 |
| State v. Scott | 2020-1583 | Criminal law—Postconviction DNA testing—R.C. 2953.74(C)(4) and (5)—R.C. 2953.74(D)—The possibility that an offender’s postconviction DNA test results could match the profile of a person other than the offender in the Combined DNA Index System database is not “available admissible evidence” that a trial court must consider under R.C. 2953.74(D) when deciding whether to grant an offender’s application for postconviction DNA testing—The trial court and the court of appeals abused their discretion in unreasonably concluding that postconviction DNA test results would not be outcome determinative, because a presumed exclusion result when viewed in the context of the circumstantial evidence of the case presents a strong probability that a reasonable factfinder would not have found the offender guilty of the offense for which he was convicted—Judgment reversed and cause remanded to the trial court to approve application for postconviction DNA testing. | O'Connor, C.J. | Slip Opinion No. 2022-Ohio-4277 |
| 12/02/2022 Case Announcements | Merit decisions with opinions—Miscellaneous dismissals. |