State v. Nichols

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Defendant-appellant, Arnold J. Nichols, appeals from a judgment of the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas convicting him of two counts of aggravated robbery, one count of attempted murder, one count of felonious assault, one count of having a weapon under disability, and related firearm specifications, all stemming from one of two robberies. According to appellant, his convictions are based on improper character evidence and a weak identification made fourteen months after the fact by the victim of the second robbery.

The relevant facts are as follows. On November 28,1993, two…