State v. Perdue, Unpublished Decision (12-18-2000)

OPINION

Defendant-appellant Clinton Perdue appeals the decision of the Mahoning County Common Pleas Court which denied his motion for a new trial without ordering a transcript of a codefendant's trial and without reviewing the transcript from appellant's trial. For the following reasons, the trial court's decision is reversed and this cause is remanded with orders to partially grant appellant's motion for a transcript, to grant appellant's request for leave to file a delayed motion for a new trial based upon newly discovered evidence, to allow time for supplementation of appellant's motion for…