State v. Clark

Citations

• 2017 Ohio 8226

Syllabus

Guilty plea knowingly, voluntarily, intelligently made allied offenses ineffective assistance of counsel consecutive sentences. Trial court did not err in accepting defendant's guilty plea where the court gave the defendant every opportunity at the plea hearing to ask questions and speak with his lawyer defendant's plea was knowingly, voluntarily, and intelligently made where trial counsel conceded at sentencing that the offenses were not allied and did not merge, defendant waived the allied-offense issue for appeal even if issue was not waived, defendant forfeited the issue except to the extent it constituted plain error there was no plain error because the offenses were committed on separate occasions and were not allied offenses because the offenses were not allied, counsel was not ineffective for not raising the allied-offenses issue in the trial court the court properly imposed consecutive sentences because it made the required statutory findings under R.C. 2929.14(C)(4) and included those findings in the sentencing entry.