State v. Norman

Citations

• 2018 Ohio 993

Syllabus

At a combined hearing and pursuant to the parties' plea agreement, defendant entered admissions to community control violations and pled guilty in a new case of having weapons while under disability. The trial court did not err in accepting defendant's admissions to the community control violations after informing him that he faced two years in prison, even though defendant had previously been told at the time he was originally placed on community control that he faced 30 months in prison. The trial court erred, however, in subsequently imposing 30 months in prison for the violations. Counsel did not render ineffective assistance in failing to object at the plea/admissions hearing. The trial court did not err in sentencing defendant to a maximum term of 36 months in prison for having weapons while under disability, and the imposition of consecutive sentences was not clearly and convincingly unsupported by the record. Judgment affirmed with respect to the having weapons while under disability case. Judgment concerning the community control violations is reversed in part, and the matter is remanded for the trial court to impose a sentence not to exceed two years in prison. (Hall, J., concurring in part and dissenting in part.)