Case Title: State v. Lanier

Citation: 2011-Ohio-5

Docket Number: 20090232 and 20090328

State: ohio

Court: Ohio Supreme Court

Date: 2011-01-05T00:00:00Z

Document:
[Until this opinion appears in the Ohio Official Reports advance sheets, it may be cited as 
State v. Lanier, Slip Opinion No. 2011-Ohio-5.] 
 
 
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65 South Front Street, Columbus, Ohio 43215, of any typographical or 
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made before the opinion is published. 
 
SLIP OPINION NO. 2011-OHIO-5 
THE STATE OF OHIO, APPELLEE, v. LANIER, APPELLANT. 
[Until this opinion appears in the Ohio Official Reports advance sheets, it 
may be cited as State v. Lanier, Slip Opinion No. 2011-Ohio-5.] 
Judgment of the court of appeals vacated in part, and cause remanded to the 
court of appeals for application of State v. Johnson. 
(Nos. 2009-0232 and 2009-0328 — Submitted January 4, 2011 — Decided  
January 5, 2011.) 
CERTIFIED by and APPEAL from the Court of Appeals for Hamilton County,  
No. C-080162, 180 Ohio App.3d 376, 2008-Ohio-6906. 
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{¶ 1} Sua sponte, case No. 2009-0232 is dismissed as having been 
improvidently certified. 
{¶ 2} In case No. 2009-0328, the portion of the judgment of the court of 
appeals addressing appellant’s third assignment of error below is vacated, sua 
sponte, on the authority of State v. Johnson, ___ Ohio St.3d ___, 2010-Ohio-
6314, ___ N.E.2d ___, and the cause is remanded to the court of appeals for 
application of our decision in State v. Johnson. 
SUPREME COURT OF OHIO 
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{¶ 3} Oral argument in these cases scheduled for January 18, 2011, is 
accordingly cancelled. 
 
O’CONNOR, C.J., and PFEIFER, LUNDBERG STRATTON, O’DONNELL, 
LANZINGER, CUPP, and MCGEE BROWN, JJ., concur. 
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Joseph T. Deters, Hamilton County Prosecuting Attorney, and Scott M. 
Heenan, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for appellee. 
Roger W. Kirk, for appellant. 
Timothy Young, Ohio Public Defender, and Terrence K. Scott, Assistant 
Public Defender, urging reversal for amicus curiae, Ohio Public Defender. 
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