Case Title: State v. Centafanti

Citation: 2008-Ohio-6102

Docket Number: 20071744

State: ohio

Court: Ohio Supreme Court

Date: 2008-12-02T00:00:00Z

Document:
[Cite as State v. Centafanti, 120 Ohio St.3d 275, 2008-Ohio-6102.] 
 
 
 
THE STATE OF OHIO, APPELLANT, v. CENTAFANTI, APPELLEE. 
[Cite as State v. Centafanti, 120 Ohio St.3d 275, 2008-Ohio-6102.] 
Cause remanded for further proceedings. 
(No. 2007-1744 — Submitted September 30, 2008 — Decided  
December 2, 2008.) 
APPEAL from the Court of Appeals for Stark County,  
No. 2007-CA-00044, 2007-Ohio-4036. 
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{¶ 1} The trial court order and the opinion of the court of appeals in this 
case were premised upon the application of R.C. 2941.401.  Because appellee was 
incarcerated in a federal prison in Ohio rather than in a “correctional institution of 
this state,” see R.C. 2941.401 and 2967.01, R.C. 2941.401 does not apply. 
{¶ 2} Accordingly, this case is remanded to the court of appeals for 
further proceedings to determine the statute that properly applies and whether the 
requirements of that statute were satisfied. 
 
MOYER, 
C.J., 
and 
PFEIFER, 
LUNDBERG 
STRATTON, 
O’CONNOR, 
O'DONNELL, LANZINGER, and CUPP, JJ., concur. 
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John D. Ferrero, Stark County Prosecuting Attorney, and Kathleen O. 
Tatarsky and Renee M. Watson, Assistant Prosecuting Attorneys, for appellant. 
 
 
Tammi R. Johnson, Stark County Public Defender, and Jean A. Madden, 
Assistant Public Defender, for appellee. 
 
Timothy Young, Ohio Public Defender, and John Fenlon, Assistant State 
Public Defender, for amicus curiae Ohio Public Defender, urging that the cause be 
dismissed as having been improvidently accepted. 
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