State ex rel. Gadsden v. Lioi

In 1993, the Stark County Court of Common Pleas convicted appellant, James Lee Gadsden, Jr., of three counts of robbery, and sentenced him to concurrent terms of five to fifteen years in prison. The common pleas court suspended the sentence and placed Gadsden on probation. Gadsden was subsequently arrested and charged with robbery, receiving stolen property, and domestic violence, and the state moved to revoke his probation.

James Lee Gadsden, Jr., pro se. Robert D. Horowitz, Stark County Prosecuting Attorney, and Ronald Mark Caldwell, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for appellee.

In July 1994,…