12/23/2022
Case Caption | Case No. | Topics and Issues | Author | Citation |
State v. Burns | 2020-1126 | Criminal law—Juvenile law—R.C. 2152.12—R.C. 2151.23—Juvenile court determined that act alleged in juvenile-court complaint was not supported by probable cause, and defendant was then indicted and convicted in adult court for same act—Conviction vacated on the authority of State v. Smith—Counts in indictment pertaining to offenses that were not charged in the juvenile-court complaint but were based on conduct included in the juvenile-court complaint were properly brought in adult court—Court of appeals’ judgment affirmed in part and reversed in part and cause remanded. | Stewart, J. | Slip Opinion No. 2022-Ohio-4606 |
State v. Gwynne | 2021-1033 | Criminal law—Sentencing—R.C.2929.14(C)(4)—Consecutive-sentence findings are not simply threshold findings that, once made, permit any amount of consecutively stacked individual sentences—Consecutive-sentence findings must be made in consideration of the aggregate term to be imposed—Appellate review of consecutive sentences under R.C. 2953.08(G)(2) does not require an appellate court to defer to a sentencing court’s findings—Court of appeals’ judgment reversed and cause remanded. | Stewart, J. | Slip Opinion No. 2022-Ohio-4607 |
State v. Morris | 2021-1158 | Criminal law—Trial court’s sentence of life imprisonment constitutes cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution and Article I, Section 9 of the Ohio Constitution—A trial court must separately consider the youth of a juvenile offender as a mitigating factor before imposing a life sentence—Court of appeals’ judgment reversed and cause remanded. | Stewart, J. | Slip Opinion No. 2022-Ohio-4609 |
State v. Thompson | 2021-1355 | Appeal dismissed as having been improvidently accepted. | Slip Opinion No. 2022-Ohio-4610 | |
State v. Blackburn | 2022-0536 and 2022-0688 | Court of appeals’ judgment affirmed on the authority of State v. Bollar. | Slip Opinion No. 2022-Ohio-4612 | |
12/23/2022 Case Announcements | Merit decisions with opinions. | |||
12/23/2022 Case Announcements #2 | Reconsideration of prior decisions. | |||
State v. Ashcraft | 2021-1491 | R.C. 2950.99(A)(2)(b)—A three-year prison term imposed under R.C. 2950.99(A)(2)(b) is to be imposed in addition to any prison term imposed under any other provision of law. | Fischer, J. | Slip Opinion No. 2022-Ohio-4611 |