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State v. Jones

Citation: 2020-Ohio-4031

Opinion Date: August 13, 2020

Judge: Per Curiam

Areas of Law: Civil Rights, Criminal Law

The Supreme Court vacated this Court's denial of Defendant's motion to supplement and remanded the case to the court of appeals to consider the issue of whether Defendant knowingly, intelligently, and voluntarily waived his right to trial counsel. Defendant filed a motion to supplement the record with the transcript of a hearing, during which Defendant signed a waiver of his right to trial counsel. The transcript had not been included in the record considered by the court of appeals, which overruled Defendant's argument that he did not knowingly, intelligently, and voluntarily waive his right to counsel. The Supreme Court denied the motion to supplement, but, on further consideration, vacated the denial and granted the motion to supplement the record with the transcript of the hearing. Because the court of appeals was not privy to the complete record of the hearing, the Supreme Court remanded the cause to the court of appeals to render an opinion, upon its review of the supplemented record, the issue of whether Defendant knowingly, intelligently, and voluntarily waived his right to counsel.