State v. Worrell

Citations

• 235 N.E.3d 1066
• 2024 Ohio 442

Syllabus

SIERAH'S LAW — R.C. 2903.41 — VIOLENT OFFENDER DATABASE — RETROACTIVE LEGISLATION — EQUAL PROTECTION: Application of Sierah's Law to violent offenders who committed a qualifying offense prior to the law's effective date, were sentenced before the law took effect, and were serving a term of confinement for that offense on the law's effective date does not violate the Retroactivity Clause of Article II, Section 28 of the Ohio Constitution or the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Thus, trial court did not err in denying defendant's post-conviction motion for exclusion from the violent offender database registry requirements imposed upon him by Sierah's Law. Judgment affirmed.