Court Opinion

ID: 4552980
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2020-08-04 13:09:44.526646+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:11:30.201538
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[Until this opinion appears in the Ohio Official Reports advance sheets, it may be cited as State
v. Dunson, Slip Opinion No. 2020-Ohio-3871.]

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                          SLIP OPINION NO. 2020-OHIO-3871
              THE STATE OF OHIO, APPELLANT, v. DUNSON, APPELLEE.
  [Until this opinion appears in the Ohio Official Reports advance sheets, it
      may be cited as State v. Dunson, Slip Opinion No. 2020-Ohio-3871.]
Court of appeals’ judgment reversed on the authority of State v. Taylor and cause
          remanded.
      (No. 2017-0186―Submitted July 22, 2020―Decided August 4, 2020.)
             APPEAL from the Court of Appeals for Montgomery County,
                               No. 26990, 2016-Ohio-8365.
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          {¶ 1} The judgment of the court of appeals is reversed, and the cause is
remanded to the court of appeals for application of State v. Taylor, __ Ohio St.3d
__, 2020-Ohio-3514, __ N.E.3d __.
          O’CONNOR, C.J., and KENNEDY, FISCHER, and DEWINE, JJ., concur.
          FRENCH and STEWART, JJ., would not remand the cause.
          DONNELLY, J., dissents for the reasons set forth in the dissenting opinion in
Taylor.
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       Mathias H. Heck Jr., Montgomery County Prosecuting Attorney, and
Andrew T. French and Heather N. Jans, Assistant Prosecuting Attorneys, for
appellant, state of Ohio.
       Timothy Young, Ohio Public Defender, and Patrick T. Clark, Assistant
Public Defender, for appellee, James L. Dunson.
       American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio Foundation, Elizabeth Bonham,
Caitlin Hill, and Freda J. Levenson, urging affirmance for amici curiae American
Civil Liberties Union of Ohio, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation,
Southern Poverty Law Center, and Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under
Law.
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