State v. Haddix

This court in State v. Haddix (1994), 92 Ohio App.3d 221, 634 N.E.2d 690, considered the issue of the constitutionality of R.C. 2923.32(A)(1), since it does not set forth a specific degree of mental culpability. In finding the statute meets constitutional muster, we held that the mens rea necessary to establish the offense of engaging in a pattern of corrupt activity was the same as that of the underlying predicate offenses with which a defendant is charged. We relied upon State v. Thrower (1989), 62 Ohio App.3d 359, 575 N.E.2d 863. The state argues this position in this cause. Here, the…