State v. Oliver

Citations

• 2021 Ohio 606

Syllabus

The jury selection process utilized by the court did not constitute error, and certainly not plain error. Appellant exhausted his peremptory challenges before a particular juror, who was a retired police officer, became a member of the jury pool. At that point, appellant was limited to a challenge for cause, for which he acknowledged there was no basis, because the juror affirmed that he could be fair and impartial. However, the trial court's judgment entry erroneously suggests that the jury found appellant guilty of repeat violent offender specifications, when in fact the trial court made those findings thus, the matter is remanded for the court to issue a nunc pro tunc entry reflecting the fact that the court found appellant guilty of the specifications and citing the applicable code section related to the specifications. In all other respects, judgment affirmed.