In re S.N.

Citations

• 2020 Ohio 3958

Syllabus

DELINQUENCY – ADMISSION – COUNSEL: The juvenile court erred in accepting the juvenile's admission to a probation violation where the magistrate did not ensure that the juvenile understood the consequences of his admission the magistrate did not explain any constitutional rights that the juvenile would be waiving and the juvenile was not represented by counsel at the time he entered his alleged admission to the probation violation. Where the juvenile-court magistrate adjudicated the juvenile delinquent for what would be the offense of rape, if committed by an adult, and the juvenile failed to file objections to the magistrate's decision, the juvenile did not waive his claim of ineffective assistance of counsel on appeal however, the juvenile failed to prove that counsel's failure to file objections caused him prejudice where the juvenile's trial hinged on the credibility of the state's witnesses, and the victim maintained throughout the investigation and at trial that the juvenile had forced anal sex on the victim.