State v. Lavender

Citations

• 2021 Ohio 4274

Syllabus

POSTCONVICTION: The common pleas court's entry denying defendant's R.C. 2953.21 petition for postconviction relief is reversed, and the cause is remanded, because the court's findings of fact and conclusions of law did not conform with the requirements of R.C. 2953.21(H): the findings of fact and conclusions of law were not adequate to their purposes, when they did not specify which postconviction claims (if any) were barred by res judicata or what parts of the record were found to have established the bar, and when they did not address the material and determinative issues presented by the petition or apprise defendant or the appeals court of the legal or evidentiary bases for the conclusion that the petition and its supporting evidence did not demonstrate substantive grounds for relief.