State v. Walker

Citations

• 2020 Ohio 814

Syllabus

LAW OF THE CASE—JURISDICTION—POSTCONVICTION—CLERICAL MISTAKE: The common pleas court properly declined to grant postconviction relief based on an alleged violation of defendant's due-process/Crim.R. 43(A) right to be present at all critical stages of his trial: the court of appeals had held in defendant's prior appeal that a postconviction claim based on substantially the same facts and issues was subject to dismissal for lack of jurisdiction therefore, under the doctrine of the law of the case, the common pleas court was constrained from entertaining that claim as presented in defendant's subsequent postconviction motion. The common pleas court erred in failing to exercise the authority conferred by Crim.R. 36 to correct a clerical mistake contained in defendant's judgment of conviction, misstating the name of his trial counsel.