State v. Lester

Appellant raises two claims for posteonviction relief. The first claim is that, at the sentencing hearing, neither the court nor appellant’s court-appointed attorneys properly informed him that, because he is indigent, if he desired to appeal his case to the Court of Appeals, the court would appoint counsel under E. C. 2941.50(B). Appellant seeks herein to raise this claim upon appeal from the denial of posteonviction relief. In State v. Benton (1971), 27 Ohio St. 2d 87, we held that “A convicted indi - gent defendant may not, in a posteonviction proceeding, raise contentions that he was not…