Ohio High Court Says Omitted Self-Defense Instruction OK

By Parker Quinlan ( September 30, 2026, 5:57 PM EDT) -- A divided Ohio Supreme Court has upheld a man's conviction for firing a gun and hitting his neighbor's house, finding that the man could not prove that the trial court's failure to provide a self-defense instruction — which he had not requested — was an obvious error....

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