Opinion ID: 4514181
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: Christian III

Text: {¶ 7} Christian appealed and raised one assignment of error—that the trial court abused its discretion during resentencing when, without any new facts having been presented, it made the R.C. 2929.14(C)(4) findings pertaining to the imposition of consecutive sentences, which had not been made during Christian’s original sentencing hearing. In other words, Christian asserted that the trial court erred when it ordered Count Two to run consecutively to Count Five because no new facts had been presented at Christian’s resentencing hearing that would have warranted the trial court to diverge from its initial order, which imposed Count Two concurrently with Count Five. The Second District sua sponte asked the parties to be prepared to discuss at oral argument the issue whether Christian had completed her sentence on Count Two prior to the trial court’s resentencing. {¶ 8} The court ultimately declined to address Christian’s assignment of error and instead reversed the case based upon its holding that, by the time that Christian was resentenced in 2016, she had already served the original prison terms that had been imposed for Count One through Count Four. 2017-Ohio-8249, 99 N.E.3d 887, ¶ 15, 28-30 (2d Dist.). Applying this court’s holding in State v. Holdcroft, 137 Ohio St.3d 526, 2013-Ohio-5014, 1 N.E.3d 382, and expressing double-jeopardy concerns, the court of appeals concluded that because a trial court may not resentence a defendant for an offense once that defendant has completed 4 January Term, 2020 the sanction that had been attached to that finding of guilt, Christian could not be resentenced on Count Two, regardless of the fact that she still had not completed her sentence for Count Five. Id. at ¶ 15-16, 28. {¶ 9} We accepted jurisdiction over the state’s proposition of law: “After a state appellate court voids a defendant’s sentence, the original sentence is a nullity and re-sentencing is de novo as to the affected charge.” See 152 Ohio St.3d 1442, 2018-Ohio-1600, 96 N.E.3d 298.