State v. Francis

{¶ 78} I concur with those portions of the majority opinion that “require a criminal defendant who seeks to withdraw a plea to do so in a timely fashion rather than delaying for an unreasonable length of time,” and I also concur with the majority’s adoption of a substantial-compliance standard for evaluating a motion to withdraw a plea filed pursuant to R.C. 2943.03(D). However, I respectfully dissent from the portion of the majority’s decision remanding this matter to the trial court to conduct a further hearing on Francis’s original motion to withdraw.

{¶ 79} In my view, the timeliness of an…