State v. Smith

Citations

• 2020 Ohio 3666

Syllabus

Competency R.C. 2945.37 guilty plea stipulate consecutive sentence findings R.C. 2929.14(C) journal entry. Where the record shows that the appellant submitted to a competency evaluation, defense counsel reviewed the competency report, and the parties stipulated to the report's findings, the appellant's competency did not preclude the trial court from making a reliable determination of the appellant's ability to enter a knowing, intelligent, and voluntary plea. The trial court made the statutorily mandated consecutive sentence findings and incorporated the findings into the journal entry. The trial court's failure to incorporate the exact language of the consecutive sentence findings made in open court into its journal entry did not constitute error.