State v. Smith

Citations

• 2024 Ohio 1979

Syllabus

Guilty plea Crim.R. 11 State v. Dangler protestation of innocence Alford plea. Judgment affirmed. Defendant's plea was not an Alford plea. At no point during the plea hearing did the defendant assert his innocence in any form or fashion. Rather, when the trial court advised him that by entering a plea of guilty, he would be admitting the charged offenses, the defendant expressed that he understood. Implicit in any Alford plea is the requirement a defendant actually state his innocence on the record when entering a guilty plea. Furthermore, we find that under the totality of the circumstances, the defendant understood the consequences of pleading guilty and that his guilty plea was knowingly, intelligently and voluntarily made.