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[Cite as State v. Heina, 2011-Ohio-4995.]

STATE OF OHIO                     )                   IN THE COURT OF APPEALS
                                  )ss:                NINTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT
COUNTY OF MEDINA                  )

STATE OF OHIO                                         C.A. No.     11CA0004-M

          Appellee

          v.                                          APPEAL FROM JUDGMENT
                                                      ENTERED IN THE
DEAN A. HEINA                                         COURT OF COMMON PLEAS
                                                      COUNTY OF MEDINA, OHIO
          Appellant                                   CASE No.   99CR0012

                                 DECISION AND JOURNAL ENTRY

Dated: September 30, 2011

          MOORE, Judge.

          {¶1}   Appellant, Dean Heina, appeals his conviction of the Medina County Court of

Common Pleas. This Court dismisses the appeal as untimely.

                                                 I.

          {¶2}   On April 16, 1999, Heina was sentenced to an aggregate term of nineteen years of

incarceration on his guilty pleas to the charges of involuntary manslaughter and kidnapping.

          {¶3}   On November 22, 2010, the trial court held a resentencing hearing, purporting to

correct the imposition of postrelease control. On December 10, 2010, the Medina County Clerk

of Court entered upon the record the trial court’s resentencing entry. On December 14, 2010, the

Clerk sent a “Certified Copy of Sentence” to the Bureau of Sentence Computation. On January

10, 2011, the trial court issued a nunc pro tunc judgment entry, relating back to the December 10,

2010 resentencing judgment entry, wherein the court corrected the credit for Heina’s time

served.
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       {¶4}    Heina filed a notice of appeal on January 11, 2011, stating his appeal was taken

from the December 14, 2010 “final judgment.” Heina attached the “Certified Copy of Sentence”

of December 14, 2010 to his brief and raises one assignment of error.

                                                II.

       “THE SENTENCING COURT ERRED BY IMPOSING CONSECUTIVE
       SENTENCES FOR [HEINA]’S KIDNAPPING AND INVOLUNTARY
       MANSLAUGHTER PURSUANT TO AN AGREED PLEA AGREEMENT,
       WHERE THOSE KIDNAPPING AND INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER
       OFFENSES WERE ALLIED OFFENSES OF SIMILAR IMPORT WHICH
       MERGED FOR PURPOSES OF SENTENCING PURSUANT TO R.C.
       2941.25.”

       {¶5}    In his sole assignment of error, Heina argues that the trial court erred by failing to

merge his sentences for manslaughter and kidnapping. We decline to reach the merits of Heina’s

only assignment of error.

       {¶6}    App.R. 4(A) provides that “[a] party shall file the notice of appeal required by

App.R. 3 within thirty days of the later of the entry of judgment or order appealed[.]” This Court

has held that “[t]he time requirement of App.R. 4(A) is jurisdictional and may not be extended.”

State v. Thomas, 9th Dist. No. 21472, 2004-Ohio-964, at ¶7, citing Ditmars v. Ditmars (1984),

16 Ohio App.3d 174, 175.

       {¶7}    Here, the resentencing entry was entered upon the record on December 10, 2010,

notwithstanding Heina’s focus on the Certified Copy of Sentence from December 14, 2010.

Thirty days thereafter was Sunday, January 9, 2011. Pursuant to App.R. 14(A), when the last

day of a time period set forth in the Appellate Rules falls on a Saturday, Sunday, or legal

holiday, the applicable period “runs until the end of the next day which is not a Saturday, Sunday

or a legal holiday.” Thus, the deadline for Heina to file his notice of appeal was the close of
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business on Monday, January 10, 2011. Heina filed his appeal on Tuesday, January 11, 2011.

As the appeal is untimely, this Court is divested of jurisdiction to consider the merits.

                                                                                  Appeal dismissed.

       Immediately upon the filing hereof, this document shall constitute the journal entry of

judgment, and it shall be file stamped by the Clerk of the Court of Appeals at which time the

period for review shall begin to run. App.R. 22(E). The Clerk of the Court of Appeals is

instructed to mail a notice of entry of this judgment to the parties and to make a notation of the

mailing in the docket, pursuant to App.R. 30.

       Costs taxed to Appellant.

                                                      CARLA MOORE
                                                      FOR THE COURT

BELFANCE, P. J.
CARR, J.
CONCUR

APPEARANCES:

FRANK C. GASPER, Attorney at Law, for Appellant.

DEAN HOLMAN, Prosecuting Attorney, and MATTHEW KERN, Assistant Prosecuting
Attorney, for Appellee.