Opinion ID: 6217968
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Heading: Black’s Return of Writ

Text: {¶ 4} Black timely filed her return on October 15 and provided the following facts and documentation that Simmons did not include in his habeas petition. {¶ 5} Shortly after Simmons was released from prison in Ohio, he was transferred to New York for parole supervision relating to a conviction in that state. While in New York, Simmons was convicted of a sex offense in May 2015 and sentenced to three and a half years in a New York prison. Simmons served his sentence and was extradited to Ohio in June 2021. {¶ 6} When Simmons returned to Ohio, the APA held a hearing on charges that he violated the terms of his postrelease control imposed pursuant to his Ohio convictions. Due to the sex offense he committed in New York, the APA found that Simmons had violated the terms of his Ohio postrelease control and sentenced him to 115 days’ incarceration.1 1. Simmons’s five-year period of postrelease control commenced on September 12, 2012, when he was released from prison in Ohio. He was not charged with a postrelease-control violation in Ohio, however, until June 2021. We note that Black’s return indicates that the APA declared Simmons a “PRC Violator in Custody” on May 21, 2015. Thus, Simmons’s postrelease-control period may not 2 January Term, 2022