State v. Schleiger (Slip Opinion)

{¶ 1} The Twelfth District Court of Appeals certified the following conflict question for resolution: “Whether a defendant is entitled to counsel when a trial court conducts a resentencing hearing for the purpose of imposing statutorily mandated post-release control.” We accepted the conflict and one proposition of law from Curtis D. Schleiger’s discretionary appeal: “A defendant has the right to counsel at a felony resentencing hearing regardless of the scope of the hearing.”

{¶ 2} We answer the certified question in the affirmative because a resentenc-ing hearing is a critical stage of a…