State v. Gross

Citations

• 2024 Ohio 2598

Syllabus

Defendant's sentence for seventeen drug-related, felony convictions of the third and fifth must be reversed because the trial court did not announce postrelease control sanctions at the sentencing hearing, the postrelease control sanction exceeded the statutory max of two years, and because the trial court did not provide the defendant with notice of what circumstances in his case overcame the presumption that his sentences should be served concurrently. However, the trial court correctly did not merge any of the defendant's convictions because different drugs in the same schedule, and even within the same subsection in a schedule, can support separate convictions because each drug has independent significance from the other.