(WKBN)—The Ohio Supreme Court upheld the conviction of a man accused of rape in 2010, where the victim’s level of impairment was at issue.
Robin McClain challenged his conviction, alleging that prosecutors did not provide sufficient evidence that the victim was so impaired that she could not consent to a sexual encounter and that McClain knew or had reason to believe that she was substantially impaired.
The SUPCO decision reverses an Eighth District Court of Appeals 2025 ruling that overturned McClain’s conviction, which found that the prosecution failed to present sufficient evidence that McClain knew that the victim was unable to consent…