State v. Anderson (Slip Opinion)

Citations

• 2017 Ohio 5656

Syllabus

Criminal law-Sentencing-Trial tax-Eighth Amendment-Appellant failed to show that trial court imposed his sentence as penalty for exercising his right to jury trial instead of pleading guilty-Imposing mandatory minimum prison sentence of three years on juvenile offenders for aggravated robbery and for kidnapping does not violate Eighth Amendment's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment-Mandatory three-year prison sentence imposed on a juvenile offender tried as an adult for a conviction of a firearm specification does not violate Eighth Amendment-Court of appeals' judgment affirming sentence affirmed.