Title: Bernad v. Lakewood

State: ohio

Issuer: Ohio Supreme Court

Document:

[Cite as Bernad v. Lakewood, 91 Ohio St.3d 1245, 2001-Ohio-67.] 
 
 
 
BERNAD, APPELLEE, v. CITY OF LAKEWOOD, APPELLANT. 
[Cite as Bernad v. Lakewood (2001), 91 Ohio St.3d 1245.] 
Appeal dismissed as improvidently allowed. 
(No. 00-1161 — Submitted March 14, 2001 — Decided April 25, 2001.) 
APPEAL from the Court of Appeals for Cuyahoga County, No. 75684. 
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The cause is dismissed, sua sponte, as having been improvidently allowed. 
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MOYER, C.J., DOUGLAS, RESNICK, F.E. SWEENEY, PFEIFER and LUNDBERG 
STRATTON, JJ., concur. 
 
COOK, J., dissents. 
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COOK, J., dissenting.  I disagree with the majority’s decision to dismiss 
this cause as improvidently allowed.  As Judge John T. Patton noted in his 
dissenting opinion, the rule adopted by the court of appeals could create problems 
in future replevin cases, for it “equates the [removal] of a disability with re-
establishing an immediate right to possession or ownership of earlier confiscated 
property, * * * where such property has been legally confiscated.” The court of 
appeals’ decision to return the confiscated gun collection to Bernad might also 
conflict with R.C. 2933.41(C).  That division provides, without qualification, that 
a person loses any right to possession of property that was the subject of an 
offense, the offense here being the undisputed possession by Bernad of the guns 
while under a disability. 
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Randall C. Oliver, for appellee. 
SUPREME COURT OF OHIO 
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Kevin M. Spellacy, Director of Law, and Jennifer L. Swallow, Assistant 
Law Director, for appellant. 
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