State v. Mitchell

Citations

• 2017 Ohio 6888

Syllabus

Consecutive sentences statutory findings proportionality. Defendant, a youth minister at a church who engaged in sexual conduct with a 16 year old female member of the church's youth ministry, received consecutive sentences totaling ten years for his convictions of multiple counts of sexual battery. The trial court made the required statutory finding that the defendant's consecutive sentences are not disproportionate to the seriousness of his conduct and to the danger he poses to the public, and we do not \clearly and convincingly\ find that the record does not support the finding. Consequently, his consecutive sentences are affirmed.