STATE v. JONES

No. 94216.

2010 Ohio 4136

State of Ohio, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Melvin Jones, Defendant-Appellant.

Court of Appeals of Ohio, Eighth District, Cuyahoga County.

RELEASED AND JOURNALIZED: September 2, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Melvin Jones, Inmate No. 399-495, Richland Correctional Institution, P.O. Box 8107, Mansfield, Ohio 44901, Appellant.

William D. Mason, Cuyahoga County Prosecutor, Thorin Freeman, Assistant County Prosecutor, The Justice Center — 8th Floor, 1200 Ontario Street, Cleveland, Ohio 44113, Attorneys for Appellee.

Before: Kilbane, J., Gallagher, A.J., and Jones, J.


JOURNAL ENTRY AND OPINION

MARY EILEEN KILBANE, J.

{¶ 1} Appellant, Melvin Jones ("Jones"), pro se, appeals his sentence, alleging that the trial court committed reversible error in failing to impose a mandatory five-year period of postrelease control as a part of his sentence. The State concedes this error based upon the Supreme Court's recent opinion in State v. Singleton, 129 Ohio St.3d 73, 2009-Ohio-6434, 90 N.E.2d 958. After...

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