State v. Harris (Slip Opinion)

{¶ 1} In this discretionary appeal from the First District Court of Appeals, we consider whether R.C. 2945.371(J) permits the state to introduce, in its case-in-chief, the testimony of the psychologist who conducted the court-ordered evaluation on the issues of competency and sanity when the defendant asserts, but then wholly abandons, the defenses. The appellant, the state of Ohio, advances the following proposition of law: “A psychologist’s trial testimony regarding a defendant’s feigned mental illness during a competency and sanity evaluation is admissible under R.C. 2945.371(J) when it…