Case ID: ohio-st-3d_100/html/0246-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Lundberg Stratton, J.,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The State of Ohio, Appellee, v. Townsend, Appellant.
    [Cite as State v. Townsend, 100 Ohio St.3d 246, 2003-Ohio-5758.]
    (No. 2003-1241
    Submitted September 23, 2003
    Decided November 12, 2003.)
   {¶ 1} The discretionary appeal is allowed.

{¶ 2} The judgment of the court of appeals is reversed, and the cause is remanded to the trial court to apply State v. Comer, 99 Ohio St.3d 463, 2003-Ohio-4165, 793 N.E.2d 473.

Moyer, C.J., Resnick, F.E. Sweeney, Pfeifer, O’Connor and O’Donnell, JJ., concur.

Lundberg Stratton, J., dissents.

Lundberg Stratton, J.,

dissenting.

Peter J. Wagner and Andy P. Hart, for appellant.

{¶ 3} For the reasons expressed in Judge Grady’s dissent in State v. Comer, 99 Ohio St.3d 463, 2003-Ohio-4165, 793 N.E.2d 473, ¶ 28-39, I respectfully dissent.