State v. Packer

Cosme, Judge.

{¶ 1} This appeal arises out of the denial by the Lucas County Court of Common Pleas of appellant’s motion to continue his jury trial. Appellant, acting pro se, argued at trial that newly prescribed medications were impairing his ability to properly represent himself in defending obstruction-of-justice and nonsupport-of-dependants charges. Because we find that a physician’s prescribed medication for appellant’s mental-health condition cannot be characterized as a voluntary incapacitation, we conclude that the trial court erred in denying appellant’s motion to continue on the…