State v. Jackson
Annotate this CaseAppellee pled guilty to a fourth-degree-felony charge of receiving stolen property. The trial court sentenced Appellee to two years of community control and required him to comply with the court’s standard community-control conditions and to pay court costs and probation fees. The trial court later found that Appellee had failed to abide by the requirements of community control. After a hearing, the trial court terminated community control and sentenced Appellee to an eighteen-month prison sentence. Appellee appealed, arguing that the court erred by imposing a sentence without asking him if he wished to exercise his right to allocution. The court of appeals remanded for resentencing, holding that Ohio R. Crim. P. 32(A) and Ohio Rev. Code 2929.19(A) entitled Appellee to make a statement in mitigation of his punishment and that the error was not harmless. The Supreme Court affirmed, holding that a trial court must afford an offender an opportunity for allocution at a community-control-revocation hearing before imposing a sentence for violating the conditions of community control.
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