WRITING MANUAL - Supreme Court - State of Ohio

HOW TO USE SEE ALSO
Because M.B.’s testimony was relevant to prove the essential elements of
appellant’s menacing-by-stalking charge and not otherwise unfairly
prejudicial to him, the trial court did not abuse its discretion in admitting
evidence of appellant’s other prior threats and acts of physical violence.
See, e.g., Horsley at 27, 29 (evidence of past conduct toward victim,
including prior conviction for telephone harassment, is relevant and
properly admissible to prove essential elements of menacing-by-stalking
charge); see also Skeens, 1999 WL 1082658, at *4 (defendant’s prior acts
of violence and threats toward his wife were admissible because they
were directly relevant to her belief that he intended to cause her physical
harm).
5. Cf.
Do not use cf. Instead, use compare in a variation on the compare...with
signal, explained below.
6. Compare
Use compare alone (i.e., without “with”) when the citation is to be
compared with the immediately preceding citation. An explanatory
parenthetical is recommended. Compare is used alone, where cf. would
have been used.
HOW TO USE COMPARE
Unlike other statutes of limitations, R.C. 2305.07 does not define the
time at which a claim for the relevant action accrues. Compare R.C.
2305.09 (providing that a claim for the wrongful taking of personal
property does not accrue until the wrongdoer is discovered).
Unlike the father in Masa, Hobbs received income in excess of his total
support obligation. Furthermore, food and shelter were paid for by the
state due to his incarceration. Hobbs, however, failed to pay any support
for more than a year. Compare In re Adoption of Canter, 5th Dist. Perry
No. 98-CA-5, 1999 WL 668799, at *4 (Aug. 20, 1999) (noting that
“[w]hile appellee’s contribution to Stetson’s support * * * may have
been minimal, the evidence clearly established that appellee did not fail
to provide support and maintenance to such a degree as to equate to
abandonment”).
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