State v. Huston

Citations

• 2018 Ohio 2818

Syllabus

The trial court made a clerical error in its judgment entries of plea and sentence by claiming appellant pled guilty rather than appellant's actual plea of no contest, thereby requiring the matter to be reversed and remanded to the trial court to issue the necessary nunc pro tunc judgment entries to correct the clerical errors in its applicable judgment entries. The trial court, however, did not err by finding appellant guilty upon appellant entering a no contest plea to burglary and attempted aggravated arson where the trial court went to great lengths to ensure appellant was entering his no contest plea knowingly, intelligently, and voluntarily with a complete understanding of the nature of the charges against him and the maximum possible penalty that he faced.