YONKINGS v. WILKINSON

No. 98-1305.

86 Ohio St.3d 225 (1999)

YONKINGS, APPELLANT, v. WILKINSON ET AL., APPELLEES.

Supreme Court of Ohio.

Decided August 25, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David H. Bodiker, Ohio Public Defender, and Thomas R. Wetterer, Jr., Senior Staff Attorney, for appellant.

Betty D. Montgomery, Attorney General, and Brian M. Zets, Assistant Attorney General, for appellees.


FRANCIS E. SWEENEY, SR., J.

The issue in this case is whether former R.C. 2929.41(E)(2) limited a defendant's total definite sentence to fifteen years where the defendant had been sentenced to consecutive definite sentences in excess of that amount. Both parties in this case have based their arguments on the assumption that former R.C. 2929.41(E)(2) applied to definite terms of imprisonment. However, because we find that former R.C. 2929.41(E)(2) did...

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