State v. Gover

This case presents the question of whether a defendant’s claim that he was denied effective assistance of counsel due to a trial court’s failure to notify the attorney that he had been appointed to represent the defendant on appeal can be brought as a claim of ineffective assistance of appellate counsel pursuant to the exception to R.C. 2953.21 articulated in State v. Murnahan, supra.

Gover’s five propositions of law can essentially be reduced to two: (1) the trial court’s failure to notify his appointed counsel of the appointment denied him his right to counsel on appeal under the Sixth and…