STATE v. NOGGLE

No. 92-412.

67 Ohio St.3d 31 (1993)

THE STATE OF OHIO, APPELLANT, v. NOGGLE, APPELLEE.

Supreme Court of Ohio.

Decided August 4, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lowell S. Petersen, Ottawa County Prosecuting Attorney, and Mark E. Mulligan, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for appellant.

Gordon A. Senerius, for appellee.


PFEIFER, J.

What Dale Noggle is accused of doing is wrong in the eyes of his profession and in the eyes of society. What Dale Noggle is accused of doing, however, is not considered a criminal wrong by the state of Ohio. Therefore, we affirm the decision of the court of appeals.

Consensual sexual conduct between persons over sixteen years of age, as was apparently the situation in this case, is generally legal in Ohio. The intent of R.C. 2907.03 is to forbid...

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