State v. Williams

Citations

• 2020 Ohio 5071

Syllabus

CRIM.R. 11 – COUNSEL – INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE – SENTENCING – COMMUNITY CONTROL VIOLATION: Where the trial court complied with Crim.R. 11(C) before accepting defendant's guilty pleas, defendant entered the pleas knowingly, voluntarily, and intelligently. Where the results of a court clinic evaluation of defendant were purely speculative, and where the trial court was aware of defendant's drug issues and had ordered both TASC and River City evaluations of defendant, defense counsel was not ineffective for failing to request a comprehensive court clinic evaluation. Where the sentence imposed for the offense of trafficking in heroin, which was imposed following a guilty plea to a community-control violation, exceeded the sentence that the trial court specified would be imposed for a community-control violation in the notice provided to defendant at the original sentencing hearing, the sentence was contrary to law.