Court Opinion

ID: 7275463
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-25 17:11:46.87437+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:18:49.944899
License: Public Domain

[Cite as State v. Wright, 2022-Ohio-2544.]

                 IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF OHIO
                           ELEVENTH APPELLATE DISTRICT
                               ASHTABULA COUNTY

STATE OF OHIO,                                   CASE NO. 2022-A-0051

                 Plaintiff-Appellee,
                                                 Criminal Appeal from the
        - vs -                                   Court of Common Pleas

JACOB EDWIN WRIGHT,
                                                 Trial Court No. 2020 CR 00621
                 Defendant-Appellant.

                                         MEMORANDUM
                                           OPINION

                                       Decided: July 25, 2022
                                    Judgment: Appeal dismissed

Colleen M. O’Toole, Ashtabula County Prosecutor, 25 West Jefferson Street, Jefferson,
OH 44047 (For Plaintiff-Appellee).

Jacob Edwin Wright, pro se, PID# A791-886, Correctional Reception Center, 11271
State Route 762, P.O. Box 300, Orient, OH 43146 (Defendant-Appellant)

THOMAS R. WRIGHT, P.J.

        {¶1}     On June 28, 2022, appellant, Jacob Edwin Wright, pro se, filed a notice of

appeal from a May 12, 2022 judgment entry of the Ashtabula County Court of Common

Pleas. The court sentenced appellant to serve a minimum term of three years and a

maximum term of four and one-half years in prison after he entered a plea of guilty to

burglary.

        {¶2}     A timely notice of appeal was due no later than June 13, 2022, which was

not a weekend or a holiday. Thus, the appeal is untimely by fifteen days.
       {¶3}    “* * * [A] party who wishes to appeal from an order that is final upon its entry

shall file the notice of appeal required by App.R. 3 within 30 days of that entry.” App.R.

4(A)(1).

       {¶4}   However, an appellant make seek leave to file an untimely criminal appeal

by strictly following App.R. 5(A) which provides:

       {¶5}   “(1) After the expiration of the thirty day period provided by App.R. 4(A) for

filing a notice of appeal as of right, an appeal may be taken by a defendant with leave of

the court to which the appeal is taken in the following classes of cases:

       {¶6}   “(a) Criminal proceedings; * * *.

       {¶7}   “(2) A motion for leave to appeal shall be filed with the court of appeals and

shall set for forth the reasons for the failure of the appellant to perfect an appeal as of

right. Concurrently with the filing of the motion, the movant shall file with the clerk of the

trial court a notice of appeal in the form prescribed by App.R. 3 and shall file a copy of

the notice of appeal in the court of appeals. The movant also shall furnish an additional

copy of the notice of appeal and a copy of the motion for leave to the clerk of the court of

appeals who shall serve the notice of appeal and the motion upon the prosecuting

attorney.”

       {¶8}   Because appellant has neither complied with the thirty-day rule set forth in

App.R. 4(A)(1) nor sought leave to appeal under App.R. 5(A), this court is without

jurisdiction to consider the appeal. Appeal dismissed, sua sponte, as untimely.

MATT LYNCH, J.,
JOHN J. EKLUND, J.,
concur.
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Case No. 2022-A-0051