State v. Perry

Citations

• 2025 Ohio 1486

Syllabus

The trial court erred in transposing offenses when imposing appellant's sentence for two convictions. Appellant's convictions on five counts of disseminating matter harmful to juveniles was time barred by the applicable statute of limitations. As for other charges, appellant's attorney did not provide ineffective assistance by failing to raise a statute-of-limitations argument. The record also does not portray ineffective assistance of counsel for failing to object to the jury's verdict being read in appellant's absence, and the trial court's taking of the verdict was not plain error. Appellant's convictions on two undifferentiated counts of gross sexual imposition did not violate due process. Judgment affirmed in part, reversed in part, vacated in part, and remanded for resentencing.