Village of Chagrin Falls v. Katelanos

Apparently pursuant to a plea bargain, the defendant, Peter Katelanos, pled no contest to driving with an excessive blood-alcohol content, and the prosecution dismissed charges of driving while intoxicated and driving left of center. The defendant appeals from the resulting conviction. His six assignments of error, set forth in an Appendix to this opinion, argue that the court (a) failed to inform him of the effect of his plea before accepting it, and (b) failed to obtain an explanation of the circumstances of the offense before finding him guilty.

We agree that the proceedings were defective,…