State ex rel. Atkins v. Hoover

{¶ 1} In 2001, the Cuyahoga Falls Municipal Court convicted appellant, Sanford Atkins, on a charge of dog at large, in violation of Twinsburg Codified Ordinances 505.01, and sentenced him. On appeal, the Court of Appeals for Summit County affirmed the judgment of the municipal court. Twinsburg v. Atkins (Oct. 3, 2001), Summit App. No. 20510, 2001 WL 1162834. In its decision, the court of appeals held that it could not consider the transcripts that Atkins had submitted as part of the record on appeal because they had not been certified by an official court reporter.

{¶ 2} On October 5, 2001,…