State v. Hunt

In State v. Hunt, 10th Dist. No. 06AP-1155, 2007 Ohio 3281, the Court affirmed the admission of a letter in a trial for domestic violence in which the defendant apologized for hurting the victim. The defendant argued that it was not clear in the letter that he was apologizing for physically hurting the victim. Although we agreed that the letter could be open to different interpretations, we nonetheless found the letter admissible. Id. at P9-10. The Court decided that the jury could construe the letter as it wished, and that if it interpreted the letter to be an admission of physically harming the victim, then the letter would clearly be relevant and probative. Id., at P10. ("It is the function of the jury to weigh competing inferences and accept the ones it finds most reasonable.").