State v. Popham

Citations

• 2026 Ohio 2350

Syllabus

Though the trial court did not tell the defendant that she could, in accordance with the first sentence of Criminal Rule 32.3(B), retain her own attorney to assist her at a community-control revocation hearing, no harm flowed from that oversight where the defendant was told by a magistrate that she had a right to counsel and that an attorney could be appointed for her if she could not afford one, and where the defendant applied for and received a public defender, who in turn represented her at the final revocation hearing.