Court Opinion

ID: 3192478
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-04-08 13:06:53.571686+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:25:24.629523
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[Cite as State v. Moore, 2016-Ohio-1473.]

                             IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF OHIO
                                SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT
                                       CLARK COUNTY

 STATE OF OHIO                                    :
                                                  :
         Plaintiff-Appellee                       :  C.A. CASE NO. 2015-CA-70
                                                  :
 v.                                               :  T.C. NO. 06CR1487
                                                  :
 MICHAEL MOORE                                    :  (Criminal Appeal from
                                                  :   Common Pleas Court)
         Defendant-Appellant                      :
                                                  :
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                                            OPINION

                 Rendered on the ___8th___ day of _____April_____, 2016.

                                             ...........

RYAN A. SAUNDERS, Atty. Reg. No. 0091678, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, 50 E.
Columbia Street, Suite 449, Springfield, Ohio 45502
     Attorney for Plaintiff-Appellee

GEORGE A. KATCHMER, Atty. Reg. No. 0005031, 1886 Brock Road N.E.,
Bloomingburg, Ohio 43106
      Attorney for Defendant-Appellant

                                            .............

FROELICH, J.

        {¶ 1} Michael Moore appeals from a judgment of the Clark County Court of

Common Pleas, which overruled his motion for “further proceedings.”

        {¶ 2} In 2007, Moore was found guilty by a jury of two counts of murder, with
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firearm specifications, and one count of having a weapon while under disability. We

affirmed his conviction on appeal. State v. Moore, 2d Dist. Clark No. 2007 CA 40, 2008-

Ohio-2577. On March 25, 2014, Moore filed a petition for post-conviction relief alleging

ineffective assistance of counsel in the investigation and handling of his case. The trial

court denied the petition on April 18, 2014, and we affirmed this judgment in February

2015. State v. Moore, 2d Dist. Clark No. 2014-CA-66, 2015-Ohio-550.

       {¶ 3} On April 21, 2015, Moore filed a “Motion for Further Proceedings”;

specifically, he sought “further proceedings in his motion for new trial filed March 25,

2014.” The “motion for further proceedings” acknowledged that Moore’s petition for

postconviction relief had been overruled, but asserted that his motion for a new trial was

“a separate motion” on which no action had been taken. The record does not include a

response from the State to Moore’s “motion for further proceedings.” Nonetheless, the

trial court filed a one-sentence entry overruling the motion for “the reasoning as set forth

in the State’s response.” Moore now appeals from the denial of his motion for further

proceedings.

       {¶ 4} The docket of the case and the record before us do not include a motion for

new trial. However, at oral argument, Moore’s attorney produced a file-stamped copy of

a Motion for New Trial, dated March 25, 2014, and which contained the correct case

number. The State’s attorney indicated that he had never seen the motion, and the trial

court’s terse judgment in response to the motion for further proceedings does not make

clear that it had seen the motion for new trial. Under these unusual circumstances, and

with the agreement of the parties, we will remand this matter to the trial court for it to

consider whether to add the March 25, 2014 motion for new trial to the record, and then,
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if appropriate, to consider and rule on the motion.

       {¶ 5} The judgment of the trial court will be reversed, and this matter will be

remanded for further proceedings.

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HALL, J. and WELBAUM, J., concur.

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