State v. Kiger, Unpublished Decision (12-20-2002)

{¶ 1} In this timely appeal the State of Ohio ("Appellant") challenges the judgment entered by the Columbiana County Court of Common Pleas granting Gregory S. Kiger's ("Appellee") motion to suppress a 1996 conviction for domestic violence. In doing so, the trial court held that Appellant could not use the 1996 conviction to enhance Appellee's current domestic violence charge from a misdemeanor to a felony. The court held that the no contest plea on which the 1996 conviction was based was entered without assistance of counsel and that Appellant had not made a knowing and intelligent waiver of…