Case Name: The State of Ohio, Appellant, v. Thomas, Appellee
Court: Supreme Court of Ohio
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 2010-02-24
Citations: 124 Ohio St. 3d 412
Docket Number: No. 2009-0630
Parties: The State of Ohio, Appellant, v. Thomas, Appellee.
Judges: Moyer, C.J., and Pfeifer, Lundberg Stratton, O’Connor, O’Donnell, and Cupp, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Ohio State Reports, Third Service
Volume: 124
Pages: 412–413

Head Matter:
The State of Ohio, Appellant, v. Thomas, Appellee.
[Cite as State v. Thomas, 124 Ohio St.3d 412, 2010-Ohio-577.]
(No. 2009-0630
Submitted February 17, 2010
Decided February 24, 2010.)

Opinion:
{¶ 1} The judgment of the court of appeals entered on March 6, 2009 is vacated. The judgment of the trial court entered on May 12, 2009, resentencing appellee pursuant to the court of appeals' judgment, is also vacated.
{¶ 2} The cause is remanded to the trial court for a determination of whether postrelease control was properly imposed in appellee's 2001 sentence and, if not, for resentencing.
Moyer, C.J., and Pfeifer, Lundberg Stratton, O'Connor, O'Donnell, and Cupp, JJ., concur.
Lanzinger, J., dissents and would dismiss the appeal as having been improvidently accepted.
Joseph T. Deters, Hamilton County Prosecuting Attorney, and Scott M. Heenan, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for appellant.