Court Opinion

ID: 3724010
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-07-06 06:54:03.214375+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:13:07.635664
License: Public Domain

I would sustain the first assignment of error. R.C.2921.05(B) states that no person "shall retaliate against the victim of a crime" in the manner and with the motive specified. The conduct that the statute prohibits thus unambiguously requires a wrong committed against the victim. Defendant-appellant threatened to commit such a wrong, but his conduct in making those threats was not a wrong committed against the victim. Absent the conduct prohibited by a criminal statute, there is no liability. R.C. 2901.21(A).
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