State v. Converse

Citations

• 170 N.E.3d 72
• 2021 Ohio 1274

Syllabus

R.C. 2950.06 – SEX OFFENSES – REGISTRATION – CLERICAL ERROR – CONSTITUTIONAL LAW/CRIMINAL – COUNSEL: A conviction under R.C. 2950.06 for failure to ve4rify an address was not unconstitutional and did not violate defendant's right to a jury trial when the duty to register was mandatory and was based on a delinquency adjudication. Defense counsel was not ineffective for failing to move to dismiss defendant's indictment for a violation of R.C. 2950.06 where the charge, which was based on a duty to register stemming from a juvenile adjudication, was not unconstitutional and did not violate defendant's right to a jury trial. Where the trial court informed defendant during the sentencing hearing that defendant faced 18 months in prison for a community-control violation, the statement in the trial court's sentencing entry that defendant faced 36 months in prison for a community-control violation was a clerical error.