Spizale v. Lacroix

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that, under Ohio’s “contemporaneous objection” rule, an appellant who fails to object waives later review of the issue unless he shows plain error
• stating that religious conversion is a mitigating factor
• stating that religious conversion is a mitigating factor
• “If counsel had some reason to question Smith’s competence, they surely would have [raised the issue before the court].”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).