State ex rel. Bates v. Clancy

Citations

• 2026 Ohio 2048

Syllabus

Prohibition—Because appellant's sex offenses were committed prior to effective date of Ohio's Adam Walsh Act, he was subject to Ohio's Megan's Law and appellee trial-court judge did not patently and unambiguously lack jurisdiction to classify him under Megan's Law—Appellant cannot show that judge patently and unambiguously lacked jurisdiction to classify him after his sentencing as an aggravated sexually oriented offender, because a trial court retains jurisdiction to conduct sex-offender-classification proceedings after sentencing—Appellant had an adequate remedy in ordinary course of law by way of appeal to challenge his sex-offender classification—Court of appeals' judgment granting judge's motion to dismiss affirmed.