Case Title: State v. Shondrick

Citation: 2003-Ohio-6464

Docket Number: 20021147 and 20021231

State: ohio

Court: Ohio Supreme Court

Date: 2003-12-24T00:00:00Z

Document:
[Cite as State v. Shondrick, 100 Ohio St.3d 1260, 2003-Ohio-6464.] 
 
 
THE STATE OF OHIO, APPELLANT, v. SHONDRICK, APPELLEE. 
[Cite as State v. Shondrick, 100 Ohio St.3d 1260, 2003-Ohio-6464.] 
Appeal dismissed as improvidently accepted and certified. 
(Nos. 2002-1147 and 2002-1231 — Submitted June 3, 2003 — Decided 
December 24, 2003.) 
APPEAL from and Certified by the Court of Appeals for Medina County, No. 
3216-M, 2002-Ohio-2439. 
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Per Curiam. 
{¶1} 
This consolidated appeal came before this court upon (1) this 
court’s grant of jurisdiction of the state’s discretionary appeal and (2) the 
certification of the Ninth District that its judgment in this case conflicted with the 
judgment of the Tenth District Court of Appeals in State v. Astley (1987), 36 Ohio 
App.3d 247, 523 N.E.2d 322.  We now dismiss this consolidated appeal. 
{¶2} 
1. 
In case No. 2002-1147, this court granted discretionary 
review to determine whether the trial court abused its discretion in excluding 
evidence of potential witness bias.  This cause is dismissed, as having been 
improvidently accepted. 
{¶3} 
2. 
 In case No. 2002-1231, the Ninth District certified the 
following question: 
{¶4} 
“Whether only physical stimulation, and not actual contact or 
touching, of the penis by the mouth of another person is required to prove 
‘fellatio,’ which is not statutorily defined under the Ohio Revised Code.” 
{¶5} 
Upon a careful review of this cause, this court determines that the 
certified case is not in conflict with Astley.  Since no genuine conflict exists, this 
cause is dismissed, as having been improvidently certified. 
SUPREME COURT OF OHIO 
2 
Appeal dismissed. 
 
MOYER, C.J., RESNICK, F.E. SWEENEY, PFEIFER, LUNDBERG STRATTON, 
O’CONNOR and O’DONNELL, JJ., concur. 
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Dean Holman, Medina County Prosecuting Attorney, James R. Bennett II 
and Scott G. Salisbury, Assistant Prosecuting Attorneys, for appellant. 
 
Gary W. Eisner, for appellee. 
 
David H. Bodiker, State Public Defender, and John Fenlon, Assistant 
Public Defender, urging affirmance for amicus curiae Ohio Public Defender in 
case No. 2002-1231. 
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