State v. Halasz

Citations

• 2025 Ohio 3072

Syllabus

Attempted murder, sentencing hearing, prison term, aggravating factors, R.C. 2929.12(B), mitigating factors, R.C. 2929.12(C) principles of felony sentencing, R.C. 2929.11, jail-time credit award, R.C. 2967.191(A), date of confinement. Criminal defendant convicted of attempted murder appeals his 11-year prison sentence, the statutory maximum. Defendant stabbed an advanced nurse practitioner that was treating him for schizoaffective disorder. Defendant asserts that the record did not support his sentence because the court failed to consider that he committed the acts underlying his conviction while suffering from serious mental illness. Prison sentence was affirmed because it was within the appropriate statutory range of years and because the sentencing hearing transcript showed the court considered mitigating factors under R.C. 2929.12(C), aggravating factors under R.C. 2929.12(B), and the overriding principles of felony sentencing under R.C. 2929.11. However, the trial court miscalculated defendant's jail-time credit award. Defendant was confined for 216 days between his arrest for attempted murder and his sentence; the trial court mistakenly awarded him only 208 days of jail-time credit. Case remanded to trial court to correct jail-time credit award.