State v. Johnson
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The Supreme Court reversed the decision of the court of appeals reversing the trial court’s decision denying Defendant’s Motion to Vacate Judicial Sanction and reinstated the judgment of the trial court, holding that postrelease control was properly imposed.
Defendant was sentenced by the common pleas court to a prison term and to post-release control. Defendant later pleaded guilty to robbery and theft. The trial court found that Defendant was on post-release control at the time he committed the offenses, terminated the post-release control, and ordered that the remainder of the post-release control be served as a prison term. Defendant moved to vacate the judicial sanction, but the trial court denied the motion. The court of appeals reversed, holding that the failure to the common pleas court sentencing entry to advise Defendant to the consequences contained within Ohio Rev. Code 2929.141(A) prohibited the sanctions from being imposed. The Supreme Court reversed based on State v. Gordon, 109 N.E.3d 1201 (Ohio 2018), and State v. Grimes, 85 N.E.3d 700 (Ohio 2017), holding that a trial court is not required to notify an offender of the penalty provisions for violating postrelease control contained in section 2929.141(A).
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