State v. Myers (Slip Opinion)

*405 {¶ 1} This is a direct appeal in a capital case. Austin Myers was convicted of aggravated murder with a death specification for killing his childhood friend Justin Back. We affirm his convictions and the imposition of the death penalty.

I. BACKGROUND

A. Planning and Preparation

{¶ 2} The case was tried to a jury. Much of the account of what happened came from Myers's friend and codefendant Timothy Mosley. According to Mosley, he and Myers began to concoct their scheme on January 27, 2014. That morning, Myers, who had just slept through the start of a new job, woke up Mosley and asked him…