State v. Poe

Citations

• 2018 Ohio 3279

Syllabus

SENTENCING – ALLOCUTION: The trial court's failure to ask defendant if she wished to exercise her right of allocution before sentencing her to more than a minimum sentence was not harmless error where nothing in the record demonstrates that defendant was ever adequately informed of or afforded her right to make a statement to the court with respect to the sentence imposed, even though the court had asked defendant about a part of one victim's testimony, and defendant had touched on the issue of guilt in response.