Court Opinion

ID: 4360916
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2019-01-23 14:32:21.867611+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:25:30.377755
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[Until this opinion appears in the Ohio Official Reports advance sheets, it may be cited as State
v. Amos, Slip Opinion No. 2019-Ohio-168.]

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                           SLIP OPINION NO. 2019-OHIO-168
              THE STATE OF OHIO, APPELLANT, v. AMOS, APPELLEE.
  [Until this opinion appears in the Ohio Official Reports advance sheets, it
        may be cited as State v. Amos, Slip Opinion No. 2019-Ohio-168.]
Appeal dismissed as having been improvidently accepted.
    (No. 2017-1778―Submitted January 9, 2019―Decided January 23, 2019.)
               APPEAL from the Court of Appeals for Hamilton County,
                   Nos. C-160717 and C-160718, 2017-Ohio-8448.
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        {¶ 1} This case is dismissed as having been improvidently accepted.
        FRENCH, OSOWIK, DEWINE, DONNELLY, and STEWART, JJ., concur.
        O’CONNOR, C.J., and KENNEDY, J., dissent.
        THOMAS J. OSOWIK, J., of the Sixth District Court of Appeals, sitting for
FISCHER, J.
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        Joseph T. Deters, Hamilton County Prosecuting Attorney, and Paula E.
Adams, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for appellant.
                              SUPREME COURT OF OHIO

       Raymond T. Faller, Hamilton County Public Defender, and Julie Kahrs
Nessler and Joshua A. Thompson, Assistant Public Defenders, for appellee.
       Timothy Young, Ohio Public Defender, and Charlyn Bohland, Assistant
Public Defender; Juvenile Law Center and Marsha L. Levick; Justice for Children
Project and Kimberly P. Jordan; and Children’s Law Center, Inc., and Rickell
Howard, urging affirmance for amici curiae Ohio Public Defender, Juvenile Law
Center, National Juvenile Defender Center, Association for the Treatment of Sexual
Abusers, Professor Catherine Carpenter, Justice for Children Project, and
Children’s Law Center, Inc.
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