State v. Morton

Citations

• 2022 Ohio 2358

Syllabus

Petition for postconviction relief findings of fact and conclusions of law R.C. 2953.21 timeliness requirement jurisdiction electronic filing wrong court. Trial court erred in denying defendant's petition for postconviction relief without providing findings of fact and conclusions of law. Petition for postconviction relief was timely filed for purposes of R.C. 2953.21(A) and trial court had jurisdiction to consider petition where petition was captioned for the criminal case and accepted for filing by the clerk of courts but was initially submitted for electronic filing and docketed under the case number for the pending appeal rather than the criminal case number set forth in the caption.