State v. Word

Citations

• 2020 Ohio 265

Syllabus

Appellate Rule 26(B), application to reopen, ineffective assistance of appellate counsel, defective indictment, allied offenses, merger, and ineffective assistance of trial counsel. Applicant argues that the his appellate counsel was ineffective for failing to argue that the indictments were defective in that they charged allied offenses because the named victim and the John Doe in a subsequent charge had to be the same person. Appellate counsel was not ineffective because he argued this point in an assignment of error and because the applicant's plea of guilty waived any defect in the indictment.