State v. Powell

{¶ 1} This is an appeal as of right by defendant-appellant, Wayne Powell. A jury convicted Powell of the aggravated murder of Rosemary and Mary McCollum, four-year-old Jamal McCollum-Myers, and three-year-old Sanaa’ Thomas, and of aggravated arson. The jury recommended the sentence of death for the aggravated murder of the four victims. The trial court accepted those recommendations and sentenced Powell accordingly.

{¶ 2} For the following reasons, we affirm Powell’s convictions and sentences of death.

State’s case

{¶ 3} Mary McCollum lived in a two-story house at 814 St. John Avenue in Toledo.…