State v. Salinas

Nader, Judge.

Defendant-appellant, Emeterio Salinas, Jr., appeals his conviction and sentence on three counts of felonious assault with firearm specifications.

On the cold winter evening of Sunday, January 22, 1996, appellant was riding around the city of Painesville with four of his friends: Nicholas Coleman, Brian Semosky, Chris Davis, and Keith Summers. 1 Appellant was carrying a concealed nine-millimeter gun. Nicholas Coleman drove the five youths in a minivan belonging to his mother; appellant sat in the front passenger seat. At some point, the youths stopped at a convenience store in…