State v. Callahan

Citations

• 2022 Ohio 4103

Syllabus

The trial court did not abuse its discretion in denying appellant's motion for an oral hearing. The argument whether counsel was ineffective by failing to request a competency evaluation or hearing was waived as appellant failed to first raise this issue with the trial court. Arguendo, even if the issue was first raised with the trial court, the argument would be precluded by the doctrine of res judicata as appellant could have brought it as part of a direct appeal. After a review of the entire record as well as consideration of appellant's identified assignments of error, we find no cumulative errors that deprived appellant of his constitutional rights. As such, we find no basis for considering, let alone finding, cumulative error errors that deprived appellant of his constitutional rights in this case. Judgment affirmed.