State v. Martin

Citations

• 2021 Ohio 4213

Syllabus

Court costs, res judicata, successive similar motions, R.C. 2947.23. Under R.C. 2947.23, trial courts retain jurisdiction to review or modify orders requiring offenders to pay court costs. However, appellant's argument that he should be relieved from the trial court's order requiring him to pay court costs is barred by res judicata. Appellant moved the trial court in 2018 to vacate court costs. Subsequently, appellant filed another motion in 2020 seeking to vacate court costs, asserting for the first time that the court's order went dormant in 2016, which was denied. Because appellant could have raised the dormancy argument in his 2018 motion, he is barred by res judicata from raising it in a successive similar motion in 2020.