State v. Yates

{¶ 1} Defendant-appellant, Rejuan Yates, appeals from his conviction and sentence for possession of controlled substances, after a negotiated guilty plea. Yates contends that the trial court erred in accepting his guilty plea because he was obviously intoxicated; the trial court relied on matters outside the record as a basis for enhancing his sentence; and the trial court sentenced him without making statutorily required factual findings.

{¶ 2} We conclude that there is evidence in the record to support the trial court’s finding that Yates’s plea was voluntary and that the trial court did not…