State v. Schneider

Citations

• 2025 Ohio 4366

Syllabus

guilty plea to six sexual offenses involving six different children and receiving a jointly recommended total sentence of 18 years; defendant claims plea was not knowingly, voluntarily, and intelligently entered and he received ineffective assistance of counsel because at the initial hearing, the court, his attorney, and the state misadvised him on the maximum penalty; they believed indefinite sentencing under Reagan-Tokes was applicable to three offenses; within hours of the hearing and before any judgment was rendered, they realized only one count could invoke this type of sentencing (as only one count had a date range extending after the statute's effective date); the day after the initial hearing, plea discussions were resumed, the written plea agreement was amended, the hearing was reopened, and the court adopted the agreed sentence.