State v. Tekulve

{¶ 1} Defendant-appellant Brendan Tekulve appeals from the judgment of the Hamilton County Municipal Court denying his Crim.R. 32.1 postsentence motion to withdraw his no-contest plea to a charge of theft. In his single assignment of error, Tekulve claims that the trial court erred in denying his motion when his appointed trial counsel had refused to prepare a defense and had failed to warn him that his theft conviction would necessitate Tekulve’s removal from an R.C. 2935.36 pretrial-diversion program in a separate case, numbered B-0803861(A).

{¶ 2} In April 2009, Tekulve had walked out of a…