State v. Bond

Citations

• 2022 Ohio 1628

Syllabus

Appellant did not have any right to a jury trial in the Hamilton Count of Court of Common Pleas because he admitted that he committed the offense as an ongoing and continuous course of criminal conduct in Butler and Hamilton Counties. It is well-established that when an offender commits offenses in different jurisdictions as part of an ongoing and continuing course of criminal conduct, he may be tried and convicted for all the offenses in any one jurisdiction in which the offender committed one of the offenses or any element of one of those offenses. Therefore, the trial court was not required to advise appellant of a claimed right that he did not possess. In addition, the trial court did not err in its imposition of an indefinite sentence under the Reagan Tokes Law. Furthermore, his claims regarding the constitutionality of the Regan Tokes Law are forfeited because he failed to raise them below.