State v. Wallace

Citations

• 2019 Ohio 1005

Syllabus

Trial court completely failed to comply with Crim.R. 11(C)(2)(a) with respect to appellant's guilty plea to the charge of rape because court did not inform appellant of the sex offender classification, registration, and notification requirements that would result from conviction on that charge and there was no other basis on which the court could determine that appellant understood those penalties. Trial court did not commit plain error by failing to make a formal finding on the record that appellant was competent to stand trial or enter a plea because a mental evaluation ordered at the request of counsel found appellant to be competent, appellant's counsel stipulated to the mental evaluation report on two separate occasions, and there were no other indicia of incompetence in the record.