State v. Singleton

Citations

• 2025 Ohio 1735

Syllabus

Petition for postconviction relief; R.C. 2953.21; res judicata; ineffective assistance of counsel; prosecutorial misconduct. Affirmed. All of the petitioner's claims for postconviction relief could have been addressed in the direct appeal because the claims that her trial attorneys failed to share the State's video evidence before trial, explain the mandatory minimum sentence created by the firearm specifications, and call her mother as an alibi witness and the claims that the prosecutor coerced the codefendant into testifying to an untruth were all apparent in, if not contradicted by, the record. Those claims are barred by the doctrine of res judicata from being considered in a petition for postconviction relief.