Title: State v. Amos

State: ohio

Issuer: Ohio Supreme Court

Document:

[Until this opinion appears in the Ohio Official Reports advance sheets, it may be cited as State 
v. Amos, Slip Opinion No. 2019-Ohio-168.] 
 
 
 
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SLIP OPINION NO. 2019-OHIO-168 
THE STATE OF OHIO, APPELLANT, v. AMOS, APPELLEE. 
[Until this opinion appears in the Ohio Official Reports advance sheets, it 
may be cited as State v. Amos, Slip Opinion No. 2019-Ohio-168.] 
Appeal dismissed as having been improvidently accepted. 
(No. 2017-1778―Submitted January 9, 2019―Decided January 23, 2019.) 
APPEAL from the Court of Appeals for Hamilton County, 
Nos. C-160717 and C-160718, 2017-Ohio-8448. 
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{¶ 1} This case is dismissed as having been improvidently accepted. 
FRENCH, OSOWIK, DEWINE, DONNELLY, and STEWART, JJ., concur. 
O’CONNOR, C.J., and KENNEDY, J., dissent. 
THOMAS J. OSOWIK, J., of the Sixth District Court of Appeals, sitting for 
FISCHER, J. 
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Joseph T. Deters, Hamilton County Prosecuting Attorney, and Paula E. 
Adams, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for appellant. 
SUPREME COURT OF OHIO 
 
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Raymond T. Faller, Hamilton County Public Defender, and Julie Kahrs 
Nessler and Joshua A. Thompson, Assistant Public Defenders, for appellee. 
Timothy Young, Ohio Public Defender, and Charlyn Bohland, Assistant 
Public Defender; Juvenile Law Center and Marsha L. Levick; Justice for Children 
Project and Kimberly P. Jordan; and Children’s Law Center, Inc., and Rickell 
Howard, urging affirmance for amici curiae Ohio Public Defender, Juvenile Law 
Center, National Juvenile Defender Center, Association for the Treatment of Sexual 
Abusers, Professor Catherine Carpenter, Justice for Children Project, and 
Children’s Law Center, Inc. 
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