State v. Hatfield

{¶ 2} I disagree strongly with the court’s decision to dismiss this appeal as having been improvidently accepted.

{¶ 3} I believe that the jury’s prerogative to decide matters fairly, using the evidence admitted by the court and common knowledge garnered outside the courtroom, should be respected. Because there was sufficient, probative evidence from which the jurors could find that Sonny Hatfield acted recklessly by operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of cocaine, I would reverse the decision of the court of appeals and reinstate Hatfield’s conviction for aggravated vehicular…