Hollis v. State

Citations

• 154 N.E.3d 572
• 2020 Ohio 2924

Syllabus

SEX OFFENSES – OUT-OF-STATE OFFENDER – SUBSTANTIALLY EQUIVALENT – DUTY TO REGISTER: The trial court erred in holding that defendant's Florida conviction for lewd or lascivious battery required him to register as a sex offender in Ohio under Megan's Law, because the Florida lewd-or-lascivious-battery statute is not substantially equivalent to Ohio's unlawful-sexual-conduct-with-a-minor statute, R.C. 2907.04(A): the Ohio statute applies to persons over 18, while the Florida statute does not set an age limit for the perpetrator Ohio's law prohibits sexual conduct with victims between the ages of 13 and 15, while the Florida prohibition extends to 12-year-old victims, and in some cases to any victim under the age of 16 and Ohio requires that the perpetrator knew the age of the victim or was reckless in that regard, while Florida does not require a mens rea.