State v. Stephens

Hildebrandt, Presiding Judge.

I. Introduction

Defendant-appellant William Stephens appeals from the judgment of the trial court entered upon a jury verdict finding him guilty of possessing drugs in violation of R.C. 2925.11(A). Defendant claims that his conviction was against the manifest weight of the evidence, that the trial court should have excluded a laboratory analysis of the contents of a bag allegedly belonging to defendant, and that his right to a fair trial was violated when the state exercised a peremptory challenge that defendant alleges was racially based. Finding none of the…