Opinion ID: 2761072
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Heading: Surveillance videos and travel times

Text: {¶ 35} During trial, the state presented surveillance video taken in the hallway outside Pickens’s apartment on May 31. The video showed that at 10:38 a.m., Noelle entered Pickens’s apartment. At 12:18 p.m., Noelle came out of the apartment, pulling up the waist of her pants. Noelle knocked on the neighbor’s door, and Tucker opened the door and talked to her. At 12:19 p.m., Noelle returned to Pickens’s apartment, knocked on the door, and Pickens came into the hallway. Noelle reached into Pickens’s back pocket, and they began to struggle on the hallway floor. Noelle then returned to Tucker’s apartment and Pickens departed. At 12:20 p.m., Pickens returned to his apartment. At 12:29 p.m., two 9 SUPREME COURT OF OHIO Cincinnati police officers arrived on the scene and talked to Noelle. They also knocked on Pickens’s door, but he did not answer. At 12:46 p.m., Noelle left with the police. {¶ 36} The state also presented surveillance videos taken outside Pickens’s apartment and other locations at Gateway Plaza on June 1 and 2. The video showed Pickens leaving his apartment at 7:33 a.m. on June 1. At 10:44 a.m., Schroder and Broxterman arrived at Pickens’s apartment. Schroder knocked on the door and left his card. At 10:32 p.m., Pickens returned to his apartment and took the card from his door. At 10:37 p.m., Pickens left his apartment with his bicycle while wearing a jacket that was later found to have gunshot residue on it. The outside video showed that at 12:04 a.m. on June 2, Pickens returned to Gateway Plaza on his bicycle. But the hallway video showed Pickens returning with his bicycle to his apartment at 11:58 p.m. This discrepancy was explained by Gehring, who testified that the timer on the outside video was five minutes fast and the hallway video was two minutes slow. {¶ 37} During trial, Officer Tim Watson, a Cincinnati bicycle policeman, testified that he measured the time it took to ride a bicycle on three different routes between Gateway Plaza and Noelle’s home. He took the trips between 10:00 and 11:30 p.m. on three different evenings. He stated that the fastest trip took three minutes and 20 seconds, and the slowest trip took four minutes.