Case Name: The State of Ohio, Appellee, v. Lupardus, Appellant
Court: Supreme Court of Ohio
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 2009-11-10
Citations: 123 Ohio St. 3d 1216
Docket Number: No. 2008-2487
Parties: The State of Ohio, Appellee, v. Lupardus, Appellant.
Judges: Pfeifer, Lundberg Stratton, O’Connor, and O’Donnell, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Ohio State Reports, Third Service
Volume: 123
Pages: 1216–1216

Head Matter:
The State of Ohio, Appellee, v. Lupardus, Appellant.
[Cite as State v. Lupardus, 123 Ohio St.3d 1216, 2009-Ohio-5860.]
(No. 2008-2487
Submitted October 20, 2009
Decided November 10, 2009.)
Roland W. Riggs III, Marietta Law Director, and Mark C. Sleeper, Assistant Law Director, for appellee.
Timothy Young, Ohio Public Defender, and Sarah M. Schregardus, Assistant Public Defender, for appellant.
Richard Cordray, Attorney General, Benjamin C. Mizer, Solicitor General, Kimberly A. Olson, Deputy Solicitor, and Jeffrey R. Loeser, Assistant Solicitor, urging affirmance for amicus curiae Ohio Attorney General.
D. Timothy Huey; and Lyons & Lyons Co., L.P.A., and Jeffrey C. Meadows, urging reversal for amicus curiae Ohio Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.

Opinion:
{¶ 1} The cause is dismissed, sua sponte, as having been improvidently accepted.
Pfeifer, Lundberg Stratton, O'Connor, and O'Donnell, JJ., concur.
Moyer, C.J., and Lanzinger and Cupp, JJ., would affirm the judgment of the court of appeals on the authority of State v. Geeslin, 116 Ohio St.3d 252, 2007-Ohio-5239, 878 N.E.2d 1.