State v. Cannon

Citations

• 2025 Ohio 5729

Syllabus

COMMUNITY-CONTROL SENTENCING — PLAIN ERROR — MERGER — DOUBLE JEOPARDY: The trial court did not err by imposing a jail term of 180 days as part of defendant's community-control sentence, where the jail term was authorized under R.C. 2929.16(A)(2) and the jail term was not imposed as a result of actual vindictiveness. The trial court committed plain error, in violation of the Double Jeopardy Clause, by imposing multiple sentences on two drug-trafficking convictions where the factual basis of the convictions was one sale of a single mixture of drugs, and the offenses should have been merged.