[Cite as State v. Hogan, 2015-Ohio-3682.]

IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF OHIO 

TENTH APPELLATE DISTRICT 

State of Ohio, : 

 Plaintiff-Appellee, : 

v. : No. 15AP-570 

 (C.P.C. No. 14CR-1142) 

Joseph Hogan, : 

 (ACCELERATED CALENDAR) 

 Defendant-Appellant. : 

 

D E C I S I O N 

Rendered on September 10, 2015 

 

Ron O'Brien, Prosecuting Attorney, and Michael P. Walton, 

for appellee. 

Wolfe Van Wey & Associates, LLC, and Stephen T. Wolfe, for 

appellant. 

 

APPEAL from the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas 

TYACK, J. 

{¶ 1} Joseph Hogan is appealing from the consecutive sentences he received as a 

result of his convictions for kidnapping and gross sexual imposition. His assignment of 

error reads: 

THE TRIAL COURT ERRED WHEN IT IMPOSED 

CONSECUTIVE SENTENCES. 

{¶ 2} Specifically, counsel for Hogan argues that the trial court judge failed to 

comply with R.C. 2929.14(C)(4), which reads: 

(4) If multiple prison terms are imposed on an offender for 

convictions of multiple offenses, the court may require the 

offender to serve the prison terms consecutively if the court 

finds that the consecutive service is necessary to protect the 

public from future crime or to punish the offender and that 
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consecutive sentences are not disproportionate to the 

seriousness of the offender's conduct and to the danger the 

offender poses to the public, and if the court also finds any of 

the following: 

(a) The offender committed one or more of the multiple 

offenses while the offender was awaiting trial or sentencing, 

was under a sanction imposed pursuant to section 2929.16, 

2929.17, or 2929.18 of the Revised Code, or was under postrelease control for a prior offense. 

(b) At least two of the multiple offenses were committed as 

part of one or more courses of conduct, and the harm caused 

by two or more of the multiple offenses so committed was so 

great or unusual that no single prison term for any of the 

offenses committed as part of any of the courses of conduct 

adequately reflects the seriousness of the offender's conduct. 

(c) The offender's history of criminal conduct demonstrates 

that consecutive sentences are necessary to protect the 

public from future crime by the offender. 

{¶ 3} Counsel argues that Hogan had no significant criminal record and did not 

commit the crimes while awaiting trial or sentencing. The State of Ohio does not contest 

the facts as to the awaiting trial or sentencing issues, but does attack Hogan's prior record. 

{¶ 4} The State of Ohio also argues that consecutive sentences were appropriate 

because it was necessary to protect the public from future crime and to punish Hogan. 

And the State asserts that the sentences were not disproportionate to the seriousness of 

Hogan's conduct and to the damages Hogan poses to the public. 

{¶ 5} The trial court judge imposed sentences totaling seven years. The judge was 

extremely upset that the victim of Hogan's sexual actively was an eight-year-old child. 

The judge was also upset by the judge's perception that Hogan was lying to shift blame 

onto the eight year old. 

{¶ 6} The pre-sentence investigation ("PSI") conducted before the sentencing 

indicated that Hogan had also abused a five year old and had sexually abused a former 

wife. In short, the PSI indicated that Hogan engaged in a pattern of sexual misconduct 

sometimes with children as victims. 
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{¶ 7} The trial court judge was fully justified in imposing the sentences she 

imposed. The only error in the trial court was failing to include in the sentencing 

judgment entry all the findings made in open court at the time of sentencing. Thus, the 

trial court judge did not fully comply with the recent case of State v. Bonnell, 140 Ohio 

St.3d 209, 2014-Ohio-3177. 

{¶ 8} We, therefore, overrule the actual assignment of error, but vacate the 

sentencing entry and return the case to the trial court for a nunc pro tunc entry which 

complies with the Bonnell case. 

Judgment affirmed; case returned 

with instructions. 

LUPER SCHUSTER and HORTON, JJ., concur.