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74 Ohio St. 3d 456

State v. Williams

Ohio Supreme Court

Decided February 7, 1996

Ohio Supreme Court · decided 1996-02-07

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Decided 1996-02-07

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Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently January 2012

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Per Curiam.

¶1Appellant first argued to the court of appeals that he received ineffective assistance of appellate counsel because appellate counsel failed to raise the issue of trial counsel’s ineffectiveness. Appellant asserted that trial counsel was ineffective for allowing the results of ballistics tests to be introduced into evidence without calling the expert who performed the tests. The court of appeals held that appellant failed to show any prejudice because he had failed to demonstrate that, but for the alleged error, the outcome of his trial would have been different. We concur. See State v. Bradley (1989), 42 Ohio St.3d 136, 538 N.E.2d 373, paragraph three of the syllabus.

¶2Appellant also argued that “trial counsel was ineffective for failing to offer the jury an explanation of the low levels of antimony and barium on the confessed shooter and failing to offer an alternative explanation of how appellant’s hands could have been contaminated [with these chemicals].” However, the court of *457appeals held that the record showed that trial counsel did address that issue, and that, in any case, appellant failed to show prejudice. We concur.

¶3Accordingly, we affirm the judgment of the court of appeals.

¶4Judgment affirmed.

Moyer, C.J., Douglas, Wright, Resnick, F.E. Sweeney, Pfeifer and Cook, JJ., concur.
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