State v. Gordon

The principal questions raised in this appeal are: whether the crime of obstructing official business in violation of R.C. 2921.31 1 is a lesser included offense of the crime of obstructing justice in violation of R.C. 2921.32 2 ; and whether the evidence was sufficient to prove that appellant’s acts amounted to hampering or impeding police officers in the performance of their duty, in violation of R.C. 2921.31.

Because appellant, Laverne Gordon, challenges the sufficiency of the evidence, we will review it in detail. For a period of two weeks, Cincinnati police officers had kept appellant’s…