[Cite as State v. Dines, 2014-Ohio-3143.]

Court of Appeals of Ohio

EIGHTH APPELLATE DISTRICT 

COUNTY OF CUYAHOGA 

JOURNAL ENTRY AND OPINION 

No. 100647 

STATE OF OHIO 

PLAINTIFF-APPELLEE 

vs.

NOAH DINES

 DEFENDANT-APPELLANT

JUDGMENT: 

REVERSED IN PART AND REMANDED 

Criminal Appeal from the 

Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas 

Case No. CR-06-479797-A 

BEFORE: Jones, P.J., S. Gallagher, J., and Rocco, J. 

 

RELEASED AND JOURNALIZED: July 17, 2014 
ATTORNEY FOR APPELLANT 

Timothy F. Sweeney 

The 820 Building 

Suite 430 

820 West Superior Avenue 

Cleveland, Ohio 44113

ATTORNEYS FOR APPELLEE

Timothy J. McGinty 

Cuyahoga County Prosecutor 

BY: Daniel T. Van 

Assistant County Prosecutor 

The Justice Center, 8th Floor 

1200 Ontario Street 

Cleveland, Ohio 44113 

LARRY A. JONES, SR., P.J.: 
{¶1} Defendant-appellant, Noah Dines, appeals the imposition of postrelease 

control on three rape convictions. The state concedes Dines’s argument in part. After 

review, the imposition of postrelease control is affirmed in part and reversed in part, and 

this case is remanded for proceedings consistent with this opinion. 

I. Procedural History

{¶2} In 2006, Dines was charged with 3 counts of rape, 23 counts of kidnapping, 

and 20 counts of gross sexual imposition involving two relatives who were under 10 years 

of age at the time of the crimes. 

{¶3} After the first day of trial, the parties informed the court that they had come to 

a plea agreement in which Dines agreed to plead guilty to 3 counts of rape and agreed to a 

recommended sentence of 18 years in prison. The remaining 43 counts would be nolled 

as part of the plea deal. 

{¶4} The trial court sentenced Dines to six years on each count, to run 

consecutively, and imposed a mandatory five-year period of postrelease control. 

{¶5} In 2007, Dines filed a pro se notice of appeal but this court dismissed the 

appeal for failure to file a timely notice of appeal. 

{¶6} In March 2013, Dines filed pro se motions to withdraw his guilty plea and for 

issuance of a final appealable order and vacation of his sentence. The state opposed the 

motions in part, but conceded that the trial court’s sentencing journal entry did not include 

required information regarding the consequences of a violation of postrelease control. 

The state recommended the trial court conduct a limited resentencing on the issue of 
postrelease control. 

{¶7} The trial court denied Dines’s motion to withdraw his guilty plea, but found 

that its original sentencing entry did not include information regarding the consequences 

of violating postrelease control and, therefore, granted his motion only for the purpose of 

“holding a limited resentencing for imposing post-release control pursuant to State v. 

Fischer, 128 Ohio St.3d 92, 2010-Ohio-6238.”1

 

{¶8} In November 2013, the trial court held the hearing at which it informed Dines 

that he was subject to a mandatory five years of postrelease control on each count of rape 

and advised him of the consequences of violating his postrelease control. The court 

issued a journal entry the same day, which stated, in pertinent part: “Defendant advised 

of post release control for 5 years mandatory on each count 3, 4 & 46. Appellate rights 

explained * * * .” 

{¶9} Dines filed a timely notice of appeal and raises the following assignments of 

error for our review: 

[I.] The Trial Court Erred as a Matter of Law in the Resentencing 

Proceeding By Not Complying with Requirements of R.C. 2929.191, and 

Not Issuing and Recording a Correction to the 2007 Judgment of 

Conviction. 

[II.] The Trial Court Did Not Have Authority to Impose Post-Release 

Control on the One Rape Offense for which Dines has Already Served His 

Six-Year Sentence.

II. Law and Analysis 

 

1

State v. Fischer, 128 Ohio St.3d 92, 2010-Ohio-6238, 942 N.E.2d 332. 
{¶10} In the first assignment of error, Dines argues that the trial court erred in 

resentencing him in accordance with R.C. 2929.191 by failing to: (1) include a 

statement that he would be supervised under R.C. 2967.28 after he leaves prison as 

required by R.C. 2929.191(A)(1); (2) place “upon the journal of the court an entry nunc 

pro tunc to record the correction to the judgment of conviction,” as required by R.C. 

2929.191(A)(2); and (3) properly advise him in the November 2013 sentencing journal 

entry of the consequences of postrelease control. 

{¶11} R.C. 2929.191 sets forth the procedures for correction to judgment of 

conviction concerning postrelease control. R.C. 2929.191(A)(1) and (A)(2) set forth the 

procedures for sentences imposed before July 11, 2006. Dines was sentenced on 

January 7, 2007. Therefore, R.C. 2929.191(A)(1) and (A)(2) do not apply to Dines and 

the trial court did not err in not following those procedures.2

 

{¶12} As to Dines’s contention that the trial court did not properly advise him in 

the November 2013 sentencing journal entry of the consequences of postrelease control, 

the state concedes this argument. “A trial court must provide statutorily compliant 

notification to a defendant regarding postrelease control at the time of sentencing, 

including notifying the defendant of the details of the postrelease control and the 

consequences of violating postrelease control.” State v. Qualls, 131 Ohio St.3d 499, 

2012-Ohio-1111, 967 N.E.2d 718, ¶ 18. This includes incorporating the postrelease 

notification into the sentencing entry. Id.

 

2

R.C. 2929.191(C) sets forth the procedures for correction to judgment of conviction concerning 

postrelease control for sentences imposed on or after July 11, 2006. 
If the trial court properly notifies the defendant about postrelease control at the sentencing 

hearing and then inadvertently omits that notice from the sentencing entry, the omission 

can be corrected with a nunc pro tunc entry, and the defendant is not entitled to a new 

sentencing hearing. Id. at ¶ 30. 

{¶13} In State v. Williamson, 8th Dist. Cuyahoga No. 99473, 2013-Ohio-3733, this 

court stated that where a defendant fails to demonstrate a deficiency of postrelease control 

notification at the sentencing hearing, but can show that the judgment entry failed to 

include a full notification, the defendant is entitled to a nunc pro tunc entry to correct any 

omission. Id. at ¶ 18. 

{¶14} In light of the above, the case is remanded for the trial court to issue a nunc 

pro tunc entry to reflect that Dines was advised of the consequences for violating 

postrelease control and that an additional prison term of up to one-half of his prison 

sentence could be imposed if Dines violates the terms and conditions of his postrelease 

control. See State v. Williams, 8th Dist. Cuyahoga No. 96323, 2013-Ohio-3267, ¶ 16. 

{¶15} The first assignment of error is sustained in part. 

{¶16} In the second assignment of error, Dines argues that the trial court erred in 

imposing postrelease control on the one count of rape for which he has already served his 

sentence. The state concedes this assignment of error. 

{¶17} Dines was sentenced in January 2007 to six years of imprisonment on each 

of three rape offenses, to be served consecutively. At the time the trial court held the 

November 2013 hearing to impose postrelease control, Dines had completed his sentence 

for one of the rape convictions. 
{¶18} In State v. Holdcroft, 137 Ohio St.3d 526, 2013-Ohio-5014, 1 N.E.3d 382, ¶ 

19, the Ohio Supreme Court held that a trial court cannot add a term of postrelease 

control as a sanction for a particular offense after the defendant has already served the 

prison term for that offense, even if the defendant remains in prison for other offenses. 

{¶19} The parties in this case agree that the remedy is to remand the case with 

instructions to vacate the imposition of postrelease control for the sentence Dines has 

already served. Thus, the case is remanded with instructions to the trial court to 

determine which rape conviction has already been served and to vacate the imposition of 

postrelease control only as to that conviction. 

{¶20} The second assignment of error is sustained. 

III. Remand Instructions

{¶21} This matter is remanded for the trial court to (1) vacate postrelease control 

on one count of rape and (2) issue a nunc pro tunc entry to reflect that Dines was advised 

of the consequences for violating postrelease control on the two remaining rape 

convictions and that an additional prison term of up to one-half of his prison sentence 

could be imposed if he violates the terms and conditions of his postrelease control. 

{¶22} Judgment reversed in part. Case remanded. 

It is ordered that appellant and appellee split the 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. 

A certified copy of this entry shall constitute the mandate pursuant to Rule 27 of 
the Rules of Appellate Procedure. 

 

LARRY A. JONES, SR., PRESIDING JUDGE 

SEAN C. GALLAGHER, J., and 

KENNETH A. ROCCO, J., CONCUR