State v. Fowler

Citations

• 2022 Ohio 3499

Syllabus

The trial court violated appellant's right of allocution by introducing new information from outside of the record and relying on it in sentencing appellant without giving appellant or his attorney an opportunity to respond to the new information. The error was not harmless, despite appellant's failure to object, because the court raised the issue and relied heavily on it to rebut appellant's version of events.