[Cite as State v. Ferguson, 2015-Ohio-5516.]

COURT OF APPEALS 

PERRY COUNTY, OHIO 

FIFTH APPELLATE DISTRICT 

STATE OF OHIO 

 Plaintiff-Appellee 

-vsBRYAN K. FERGUSON 

 Defendant-Appellant 

JUDGES: 

Hon. Sheila G. Farmer, P. J. 

Hon. John W. Wise, J. 

Hon. Patricia A. Delaney, J. 

Case Nos. 15 CA 00009 and 

 15 CA 00010 

O P I N I O N 

CHARACTER OF PROCEEDING: Criminal Appeal from the Court of Common 

Pleas, Case Nos. 11 CR 0070 and 11 CR 

0102 

JUDGMENT: Affirmed 

DATE OF JUDGMENT ENTRY: December 28, 2015 

APPEARANCES: 

For Plaintiff-Appellee For Defendant-Appellant 

JOSEPH A. FLAUTT VALERIE K. WIGGINS 

PROSECUTING ATTORNEY 107 South Main Street 

CINDY M. O’NEIL New Lexington, Ohio 43764 

ASSISTANT PROSECUTOR 

111 North High Street, P. O. Box 569 

New Lexington, Ohio 43764 
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Wise, J. 

{¶1} Appellant Bryan Ferguson appeals from the decisions of the Court of 

Common Pleas, Perry County, which denied his motion for jail-time credit following his 

incarceration for violating community control. Appellee is the State of Ohio. The relevant 

facts leading to this consolidated appeal, stemming from two trial court cases, are as 

follows. 

Background of Common Pleas Case No. 11-CR-0070 

{¶2} On July 21, 2011, in case number 11-CR-0070, appellant was indicted on 

two counts of breaking and entering (R.C. 2911.13(A), felonies of the fifth degree), one 

count of theft (R.C. 2913.02(A)(1), a misdemeanor of the first degree), and one count of 

attempted theft (R.C. 2913.02(A)(1) and 2923.02(A), a misdemeanor of the second 

degree). 

{¶3} On February 9, 2012, appellant entered pleas of guilty to all counts as 

charged. Appellant was placed on community control for a period of five years, with the 

condition that he serve ninety days in jail. 

Background of Common Pleas Case No. 11-CR-0102 

{¶4} On November 18, 2011, in case number 11-CR-0102, while the above 

charges were pending, appellant was indicted on one count of breaking and entering 

(R.C. 2911.13(A), a felony of the fifth degree), one count of possession of criminal tools 

(R.C. 2923.24(A), a felony of the fifth degree), and one count of theft (R.C. 2913.02(A)(1), 

a misdemeanor of the first degree). 

{¶5} On February 9, 2012, appellant entered pleas of guilty to all counts as 

charged. Appellant was placed on community control for a period of five years, with the 
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condition that he spend ninety days in jail, with the incarceration period to run concurrently 

with that in case number 11-CR-0070. 

2013 Community Control Violation 

{¶6} On April 12, 2013, appellant was charged with violating his community 

control sanctions in case number 11-CR-0070. On May 15, 2013, appellant appeared 

before the trial court and admitted to violating community control. The court decided to 

continue his community control, but as an additional condition, appellant was ordered to 

attend and successfully complete the community transition control program (“CTC”) in 

Lancaster, Ohio. 

2014 Community Control Violations 

{¶7} On September 10, 2014, appellant was again charged with violating his 

community control, this time under both 11-CR-0070 and 11-CR-0102. On October 20, 

2014, appellant admitted to the violation in both cases. As a result, via a judgment entry 

filed in each case on October 23, 2014, appellant's community control was revoked. The 

trial court further sentenced him to prison for a period of eleven months in each case, for 

a total of twenty-two months. Appellant was also given credit for 90 days of jail time served 

under 11-CR-0070 and 207 days of jail time under 11-CR-0102. However, these periods 

did not include credit for any days spent at the aforementioned treatment at CTC. 

Appellant’s Request for Jail-Time Credit 

{¶8} On February 18, 2015, appellant filed a motion for jail-time credit under both 

case numbers, therein requesting credit for 103 claimed days of jail-time credit for his 

CTC treatment, which he alleged had occurred from mid-June 2013 to late September 
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2013. On March 12, 2015, the trial court denied appellant's motion via judgment entries 

in each case. 1 

{¶9} On April 1, 2015, appellant filed a notice of appeal under each of the 

aforesaid trial court case numbers. This Court consolidated the cases via judgment entry 

on July 17, 2015. 

{¶10} Appellant herein raises the following two Assignments of Error: 

{¶11} “I. THE TRIAL COURT VIOLATED THE APPELLANT'S 

CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AND ABUSED ITS DISCRETION WHEN IT FAILED TO 

GRANT THE APPELLANT CREDIT FOR TIME SERVED WHILE THE APPELLANT WAS 

INCARCERATED IN COMMUNITY TRANSITION CONTROL. THE APPELLANT IS 

NOW BEING UNLAWFULLY DETAINED. 

{¶12} “II. THE TRIAL COURT VIOLATED THE APPELLANT'S 

CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AND ABUSED ITS DISCRETION WHEN IT FAILED TO 

CONDUCT A HEARING TO DETERMINE THE NATURE OF THE APPELLANT'S 

CONFINEMENT AT COMMUNITY TRANSITION CONTROL BEFORE DENYING THE 

APPELLANT'S MOTION FOR JAIL TIME CREDIT. THE APPELLANT IS NOW BEING 

UNLAWFULLY DETAINED.” 

I., II. 

{¶13} In his First Assignment of Error, appellant contends the trial court abused 

its discretion and violated his constitutional rights by denying his request for jail-time 

 

1 Our reading of the trial court files indicates that the CTC requirement, which the court 

added in 2013, was only ordered in 11-CR-0070, even though the subject motion for jailtime credit was filed under both case numbers. 
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credit. In his Second Assignment of Error, appellant contends the trial court abused its 

discretion and violated his constitutional rights by failing to conduct a hearing on the issue. 

{¶14} R.C. 2967.191 states in pertinent part as follows: 

The department of rehabilitation and correction shall reduce the 

stated prison term of a prisoner or, if the prisoner is serving a term for which 

there is parole eligibility, the minimum and maximum term or the parole 

eligibility date of the prisoner by the total number of days that the prisoner 

was confined for any reason arising out of the offense for which the prisoner 

was convicted and sentenced, including confinement in lieu of bail while 

awaiting trial, confinement for examination to determine the prisoner's 

competence to stand trial or sanity, confinement while awaiting 

transportation to the place where the prisoner is to serve the prisoner's 

prison term, as determined by the sentencing court under division 

(B)(2)(g)(i) of section 2929.19 of the Revised Code, and confinement in a 

juvenile facility. ***. 

{¶15} Accordingly, “[t]ime spent in a rehabilitation facility where one's ability to 

leave whenever he or she wishes is restricted may be confinement for the purposes of 

R.C. 2967.191.” State v. Osborne, 5th Dist. Richland No. 2009CA0119, 2010-Ohio-4100, 

¶ 14, citing State v. Napier, 93 Ohio St.3d 646, 758 N.E.2d 1127, 2001-Ohio-1890. 

Nonetheless, we have recognized that an appeal of a jail-time credit denial is moot where 

the defendant-appellant has completed his prison sentence. See State v. Black, 5th Dist. 

Richland No. 09-CA-153, 2010-Ohio-2594; State v. Owens, 5th Tuscarawas App.No. 

2004 AP 03 0022, 2004-Ohio-4604.
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{¶16} Appellant states in his brief that “the issue will be moot before the case can 

be remanded for further review ***.” See Appellant’s Brief at 7. Specifically, appellant 

submits that with the 103 days of requested credit applied, he would have been entitled 

to release on July 2, 2015. Id. at 3. Based on this, we must conclude that appellant has 

by now completed his community control violation sentences imposed by the trial court 

on October 23, 2014. 

{¶17} Appellant’s First and Second Assignments of Error are therefore found 

moot, and we thus will not reach an analysis of the CTC program in regard to R.C. 

2967.191, supra. 

{¶18} For the reasons stated in the foregoing opinion, the judgments of the Court 

of Common Pleas, Perry County, Ohio, are hereby affirmed. 

By: Wise, J. 

Farmer, P. J., and 

Delaney, J., concur. 

 

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