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The appellate court affirmed the trial court's conviction of Sadaghiani on all three criminal charges (making a false alarm, aggravated menacing, and telecommunications harassment) and upheld her sentence of 180 days suspended jail, $250 fine, and one year inactive probation.
Ineffective assistance of counsel speedy trial venue Evid.R. 803(6) business records hearsay trial strategy sufficiency of evidence manifest weight of evidence making a false alarm aggravated menacing telecommunications harassment Evid.R. 404(B) other acts evidence. - Defendant's convictions for making a false alarm, aggravated menacing, and telecommunications harassment were supported by sufficient evidence and not against the manifest weight of the evidence. Defense counsel was not ineffective for not objecting (1) on speedy trial grounds where the case was timely brought to trial (2) to subpoenaed business records where the records were authenticated and properly admitted under Evid.R. 803(6) and (3) to hearsay testimony where the decision not to object was a trial strategy. Venue was properly established. The trial court did not abuse its discretion in admitting other acts testimony because it was admitted for the purpose of establishing the defendant's identity the city's failure to give formal notice of its intent to use other acts evidence under Evid.R 404(B) was not reversible error where there was no bad faith and the testimony to which the defendant objected was disclosed in a police report prior to trial.
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