State v. Johnson

Citations

• 2018 Ohio 4347

Syllabus

The trial court did not prevent the appellant from subpoenaing any witnesses. Therefore, it did not deprive him of his Sixth Amendment right to compulsory process. The appellant's no-contest plea waived his ability on appeal to challenge the trial court's ruling on a motion in limine. Although the appellant entered his no-contest plea under the mistaken belief that it preserved his ability to challenge the ruling on the motion in limine, we are unable to exercise our discretion to notice plain error because the trial court's ruling undoubtedly was correct, the result would be the same if an appeal of the liminal ruling itself had proceeded, and therefore there is no plain error to notice. Judgment affirmed. (Donovan, J., dissenting.)