State v. Quinn

Ohio Court of Appeals·Decided July 7, 2026·No. L-25-00280·Published

Opinion

[Cite as State v. Quinn, 2026-Ohio-2578.]

IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF OHIO SIXTH APPELLATE DISTRICT LUCAS COUNTY

State of Ohio Court of Appeals No. {48}L-25-00280

Appellee Trial Court No. CR0200502529

v.

Jeremy J. Quinn, Jr. DECISION AND JUDGMENT

Appellant Decided: July 7, 2026

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Julia R. Bates, Lucas County Prosecuting Attorney, and Brenda J. Majdalani, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for appellee.

Laurel A. Kendall, for appellant.

MAYLE, J.

{¶ 1} Defendant-appellant, Jeremy J. Quinn, Jr., appeals the October 29, 2025

judgment of the Lucas County Court of Common Pleas, denying his motions for funds

for an expert witness and for a new trial. For the following reasons, we affirm.

I. Background

{¶ 2} Following a jury trial that began on November 14, 2005, Jeremy Quinn was

convicted of kidnapping and repeatedly raping a 16-year-old girl. The trial evidence is summarized in detail in State v. Quinn, 2008-Ohio-819 (6th Dist.). Evidence pertinent to

Quinn’s present appeal is recited below, as is the procedural history of the case.

A. The Trial Evidence

{¶ 3} Briefly stated, on July 18, 2005, the victim was leaving her Sylvania

Township home between 4:00 and 4:15 p.m. for a 4:30 p.m. shift at Southwyck Mall.

She got into her car, which was parked in her driveway, and was approached by a black

male whom she did not know. At knifepoint, he forced her into the passenger side of the

vehicle such that her head was under the dashboard and her legs were on the passenger

seat. He drove about three to five minutes and stopped the car in a wooded area. While

inside the vehicle, he raped her orally, vaginally, and anally. Outside the vehicle, he

raped her again, twice vaginally and once anally. He forced her back into the vehicle

where he made her kiss him, sucked on her neck and breasts, licked her vagina,

masturbated to ejaculation, then forced her to swallow the ejaculate. Quinn told the

victim to get dressed, but she could not get her jeans on because her legs were wet with

sweat. He gave her some pants that were in her trunk. Afterward, he drove her to a home

around the corner from her house and exited the vehicle. The victim drove home from

there.

{¶ 4} When she arrived home, the victim was approached by her neighbor who

asked if she had hit her son’s vehicle. The victim told the neighbor that she had been

raped and the man who raped her hit the vehicle. The neighbor called 9-1-1.

2. {¶ 5} During the ordeal, the victim observed identifying features about Quinn,

including old scratches on his arm and a tattoo of a dog on his chest that said “fear or feel

me.” She recalled that he brandished a skinny, silver knife and described that he wore

navy shorts and a black t-shirt. The victim clearly saw his face and was quickly able to

identify him in a photo lineup. The victim’s neighbor told police that she had gone out to

get the mail around 4:15 p.m. and saw an unfamiliar black male slowly riding a bicycle.

She was not able to identify the man, but a bicycle was found next to the victim’s house.

{¶ 6} Police went to Quinn’s home, about a mile away, and apprehended him.

Navy shorts and black t-shirts were seized from Quinn’s bedroom; the shorts were wet.

He had scratches on his arm and a tattoo of a dog that said “fear or feel me.” Later, when

a search warrant was executed, a knife matching the description provided by the victim

was found during a pat down of Quinn’s father. After detectives told Quinn that he was

being arrested for rape and kidnapping, Quinn told detectives: “If you ain’t got the DNA,

motherfucker, you ain’t got nothing in your ass.”

{¶ 7} The victim underwent a sexual assault examination at Flower Hospital

within a few hours of the attack. There were tears in the victim’s anus, dirt and debris in

her vaginal vault and perineum area, a bruise on her neck, and other abrasions and bruises

elsewhere on her body. Her clothes were collected and a rape kit was performed. Swabs

were taken from inside her vagina, rectum, and mouth and from her neck, breasts, and

hands.

3. {¶ 8} A forensic scientist at the Bureau of Criminal Investigation performed

serological tests of the items submitted in the rape kit, including the swabs and her

underwear. Seminal fluid was detected in the vaginal swabs and in the crotch of the

victim’s underwear. Amylase, a component of saliva, was detected on the victim’s

underwear and on the swabs from her breast and neck. There was no evidence of semen

on vaginal smear slides, rectal samples, oral samples, or swabs collected from the

perineum, hand, breasts, or neck. The victim’s jeans, top, bra, and pants revealed no

semen or saliva.

{¶ 9} DNA analysis was performed on the items that tested positive during

serological studies. For the stain on the crotch of the victim’s underwear, there was a

sperm and non-sperm fraction. In the non-sperm fraction, there was a mixture of DNA

profiles consistent with the victim, who was the major contributor, and Quinn, who was a

minor contributor. On the sperm fraction of that same stain, there was a mixture of DNA

from Quinn, the major contributor (with a frequency of 1 in 187,800,000,000,000), and

the victim and an unknown individual, minor contributors. On the swab from the

victim’s breast, there was a mixture of DNA from Quinn, the major contributor (with a

frequency of 1 in 185,500,000,000,000,000), and the victim, a minor contributor. And on

the swab of the victim’s neck, there was a mixture of DNA from the victim, the major

contributor, and Quinn (with a frequency of 1 in 1,197,000) and an unknown individual,

both minor contributors. DNA tests were not performed on the vaginal swabs because

4. the seminal fluid tests that were performed indicated a stronger positive result for the

underwear than the vaginal swabs.

{¶ 10} Quinn testified in his own defense. He claimed that he was released from

prison on July 14, 2025, after serving 13 months for menacing by stalking and burglary.

Upon his release, he visited a Subway restaurant at Central Avenue and McCord Rd.,

where he allegedly met the victim. He gave her his phone number, which she

programmed into her phone, and she called him later that night. Quinn said that the

victim called him again two days later, and they met up around 2:30 p.m. that day, and

drove to Baskin Robbins.

{¶ 11} According to Quinn, he saw the victim again on July 18, 2005. He said

that she called him that day around noon, and he suggested that they rent videos. The

victim picked him up and they went to the Family Video at King Road and Bancroft

Street. Quinn maintained that after renting videos, the victim dropped him back at his

house and said she would return later that day. Around 3:00 p.m., the victim picked him

up and took him to her house. He sat on the love seat, and she sat on his lap and kissed

him. Quinn claimed that they disrobed down to their underwear, and the victim rubbed

his penis between her legs. He told the victim that they needed a condom, and she said

she had one in her purse. When she went to get it, her purse fell open and Quinn saw her

driver’s license, which indicated that she was only 16 years old—he thought she was 19.

Quinn maintained that upon discovering her true age, he got dressed to leave. He insisted

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