State v. Pennington

Citations

• 2021 Ohio 3365

Syllabus

GUILTY PLEA—COUNSEL—ACTUAL INNOCENCE: The common pleas court did not abuse its discretion in denying, without a hearing, defendant's Crim.R. 32.1 motion to withdraw his guilty pleas: defendant failed to show that a hearing was warranted or that withdrawal of his pleas was necessary to correct a manifest injustice, when he did not sustain his burden of demonstrating his actual innocence of the charged offense of aggravated murder or a prejudicial deficiency on the part of counsel in advising him to plead guilty to a reduced charge of murder.