Cleveland v. Clifford

Citations

• 2020 Ohio 3803

Syllabus

Guilty plea misdemeanor petty offense Crim.R. 11(E) Crim.R. 11(B) effect of a guilty plea complete admission of guilt partial compliance could be found guilty prejudice actual innocence presumed prejudice nunc pro tunc clerical error. Where the trial court partially complied with its obligations under Crim.R. 11 to advise the appellant of the effect of his guilty plea in a misdemeanor petty offense by advising the appellant of certain constitutional rights and that he \could\ be found guilty, and the appellant failed to demonstrate prejudice, the appellant's guilty plea was entered knowingly, intelligently, and voluntarily. Where the trial court's journal entry contained a clerical error, we remand with instructions for the trial court to enter a nunc pro tunc journal entry correcting the error.