Opinion ID: 2691602
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Heading: The Appeal Before the Court

Text: {¶ 29} On October 18, 1999, appellant Bodyke entered an agreed plea of no contest to one count of breaking and entering in violation of R.C. 2911.13(A) and one count of sexual battery in violation of R.C. 2907.03(A)(3). Two months 6. This court held that this prohibition cannot constitutionally be applied to an offender who bought his home and committed his offense before the effective date of the statute. Hyle v. Porter, 117 Ohio St.3d 165, 2008-Ohio-542, 882 N.E.2d 899, syllabus. 10 January Term, 2010 later, the trial judge sentenced him to concurrent sentences of six months’ imprisonment for breaking and entering and two years’ imprisonment for sexual battery. In addition, relying on the version of R.C. 2950.01 that was in effect at that time, he was classified as a sexually oriented offender, the lowest level of offender under Megan’s Law. As a sexually oriented offender, Bodyke was required to register with the county sheriff every year for ten years. He was not subject to the community-notification provisions, however. {¶ 30} In November 2007, eight years after Bodyke’s no-contest plea and almost five years after being released from prison, the attorney general, acting pursuant to the reclassification provisions in the AWA, notified Bodyke that he would be reclassified. Bodyke was automatically labeled a Tier III offender, which requires him to personally register with the local sheriff every 90 days for the duration of his life. Further, Bodyke is now subject to community-notification provisions. {¶ 31} He appealed to the Sixth District Court of Appeals, which affirmed unanimously. We accepted his discretionary appeal, 121 Ohio St.3d 1438, 2009Ohio-1638, 903 N.E.2d 1222, and now reverse.