Opinion ID: 4472525
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Heading: Applicability of R.C. 2152.12(G)

Text: {¶ 15} The juvenile court did not comply with R.C. 2152.12(G). While the statute requires that written notice be given at least three days in advance, the juvenile court sent Smith’s father notice only one day before the March 27 hearing. But the 5 SUPREME COURT OF OHIO warden argues that R.C. 2152.12(G) did not apply to the March 27 hearing. He says that it was merely a “pretrial hearing,” not a “probable cause hearing” or an “amenability hearing” under R.C. 2152.12(A) or (B). The court of appeals reached the same conclusion. See 2018-Ohio-300 at ¶ 9. {¶ 16} We reject this narrow reading of R.C. 2152.12(G), which does not refer to a “probable cause hearing” or an “amenability hearing” but instead to “any hearing held pursuant to division (A) or (B) of this section.” The juvenile court held the March 27 hearing to consider the state’s motion to relinquish jurisdiction—a motion the state had filed pursuant to R.C. 2152.12. As a result of that hearing, the juvenile court found that “transfer of this matter to the General Division is mandatory pursuant to” R.C. 2152.10 and 2152.12. Clearly, the March 27 hearing was “held pursuant to” R.C. 2152.12(A), and R.C. 2152.12(G) applied.