State v. Sweeting

Citations

• 2019 Ohio 1970

Syllabus

SEX OFFENSES – REGISTRATION – RES JUDICATA – COLLATERAL ESTOPPEL – APPELLATE REVIEW: The trial court erred in dismissing defendant's motion to dismiss the indictment, which charged him with failing to provide periodic verification of his current address on or about December 27, 2016, on the ground that defendant's duty to register had expired where in a prior case defendant had sought registration credit and an order terminating his sex-offender registration requirement the judge in the prior case had determined that defendant had to register until at least May of 2017 and the amount of registration credit to which defendant was entitled and the length of his remaining reporting period were actually litigated and determined in the prior case, and were necessary to the court's final judgment in that case: defendant was precluded by collateral estoppel from relitigating those issues in the present case. Where the trial court's entry on defendant's motion for credit of time and to terminate his registration requirement stated in the caption that the motion was denied but stated in the body that it was granted, and the record showed that the court had overruled the motion in its entirety, the state was not aggrieved by the court's order, and therefore, cannot appeal from it.