# State v. Lambert, Unpublished Decision (6-5-1998)

> Ohio Court of Appeals · June 5, 1998

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/3724010

## Case

- **Full name:** State of Ohio v. Grant W. Lambert
- **Court:** Ohio Court of Appeals
- **Decided:** June 5, 1998
- **Precedential status:** Unpublished
- **Opinion:** Dissent
- **Judges:** FREDERICK N. YOUNG, P.J.
- **Cited by:** 0 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

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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