[Cite as State v. Drewery, 2022-Ohio-838.]

COURT OF APPEALS OF OHIO 

EIGHTH APPELLATE DISTRICT 

COUNTY OF CUYAHOGA

STATE OF OHIO, : 

 Plaintiff-Appellee, : 

 No. 109587 

 v. : 

 

JACQUISE DREWERY, : 

 

 Defendant-Appellant. : 

 

JOURNAL ENTRY AND OPINION 

 JUDGMENT: AFFIRMED

RELEASED AND JOURNALIZED: March 17, 2022 

 

Criminal Appeal from the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas 

Case No. CR-19-641033-A 

 

Appearances: 

Michael C. O’Malley, Cuyahoga County Prosecuting 

Attorney, Anna Faraglia and Daniel Van, Assistant 

Prosecuting Attorneys, for appellee. 

Cullen Sweeney, Cuyahoga County Public Defender, and 

Aaron T. Baker, Assistant Public Defender, for appellant. 

EILEEN T. GALLAGHER, J.: 

Defendant-appellant, Jacquise Drewery (“Drewery”), appeals from his 

sentence, raising the following assignment of error for review: 
As amended by the Reagan Tokes Act, the Revised Code’s sentences for 

first- and second-degree felonies violate the constitutions of the United 

States and the state of Ohio. 

After careful review of the record and relevant case law, we affirm 

Drewery’s sentence. 

I. Procedural and Factual History 

In July 2019, Drewery was named in a nine-count indictment, charging 

him with murder in violation of R.C. 2903.02(A), with one- and three-year firearm 

specifications (Count 1); murder in violation of R.C. 2903.02(B), with one- and 

three-year firearm specifications (Count 2); voluntary manslaughter in violation of 

R.C. 2903.03(A), with one- and three-year firearm specifications (Count 3); 

felonious assault in violation of R.C. 2903.11(A)(1), with one- and three-year firearm 

specifications (Count 4); failure to comply in violation of R.C. 2921.331(B) (Count 

5); failure to comply in violation of R.C. 2921.331(B) (Count 6); obstructing official 

business in violation of R.C. 2921.31(A) (Count 7); tampering with evidence in 

violation of R.C. 2921.12(A)(1) (Count 8); and grand theft in violation of R.C. 

2913.02(A)(1) (Count 9). 

In January 2020, Drewery pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter, a 

felony of the first degree; failure to comply, a felony of the third degree; tampering 

with evidence, a felony of the third degree; and grand theft, a felony of the fourth 

degree, as charged in Counts 3, 6, 8, and 9 of the indictment. The remaining counts 

were nolled. 
At sentencing, the trial court sentenced Drewery to an indefinite prison 

term of seven to ten and one-half years on the voluntary manslaughter offense, to 

run consecutively to the accompanying three-year firearm specification. In 

addition, Drewery was sentenced to three years in prison on the failure to comply 

offense, three years in prison on the tampering with evidence offense, and 18 months 

in prison on the grand theft offense. The sentences imposed on Counts 3, 8, and 9 

were ordered to run concurrently. By statute, however, the sentence imposed on the 

failure to comply offense was ordered to run “consecutive to the sentences on the 

remaining counts.” Accordingly, Drewery was sentenced to an aggregate, indefinite 

term of 13 to 16 and one-half years in prison.1 

Drewery now appeals the constitutionality of his sentence. 

II. Law and Analysis 

In his sole assignment of error, Drewery argues the trial court erred in 

sentencing him under the Reagan Tokes Law, which became effective March 22, 

2019. He contends the Reagan Tokes Law is unconstitutional because it violates his 

constitutional rights to trial by a jury, separation of powers, and due process. 

In accordance with this court’s en banc decision in State v. Delvallie, 

8th Dist. Cuyahoga No. 109315, 2022-Ohio-470, the constitutional challenges 

1 Neither party has raised any issues as to the imposed sentence and, therefore, any 

determination as to the validity of the sentence is beyond the scope of this direct appeal. 

State v. Harper, 160 Ohio St.3d 480, 2020-Ohio-2913, 159 N.E.3d 248, ¶ 26; State v. 

Henderson, 161 Ohio St.3d 285, 2020-Ohio-4784, 162 N.E.3d 776, ¶ 27. 
presented in this appeal are overruled. Accordingly, Drewery’s sole assignment of 

error is overruled. 

Judgment affirmed. 

It is ordered that appellee recover from appellant costs herein taxed. 

The court finds there were reasonable grounds for this appeal. 

It is ordered that a special mandate issue out of this court directing the 

common pleas court to carry this judgment into execution. Case remanded to the 

trial court for execution of sentence. 

A certified copy of this entry shall constitute the mandate pursuant to Rule 27 

of the Rules of Appellate Procedure. 

 

EILEEN T. GALLAGHER, JUDGE 

MARY J. BOYLE, P.J., and 

ANITA LASTER MAYS, J., CONCUR 

N.B. Judge Eileen T. Gallagher joined the dissent by Judge Lisa B. Forbes in 

Delvallie and would have found that R.C. 2967.271(C) and (D) of the Reagan Tokes 

Law are unconstitutional. 

Judge Anita Laster Mays is constrained to apply Delvallie’s en banc decision. For a 

full explanation of her analysis, see State v. Delvallie, 8th Dist. Cuyahoga 

No. 109315, 2022-Ohio-470 (Laster Mays, P.J., concurring in part and dissenting in 

part).