Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2018-01-09 19:26:26.762608+00
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[Cite as State v. Harvey, 2018-Ohio-61.]

                              IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF OHIO

                                   TENTH APPELLATE DISTRICT

State of Ohio,                                   :

                 Plaintiff-Appellee,             :

v.                                               :                     No. 17AP-673
                                                                    (C.P.C. No. 11CR-4353)
Charles J. Harvey, Jr.,                          :
                                                             (ACCELERATED CALENDAR)
                 Defendant-Appellant.            :

                                           D E C I S I O N

                                     Rendered on January 9, 2018

                 On brief: Ron O'Brien, Prosecuting                Attorney,   and
                 Barbara A. Farnbacher, for appellee.

                 On brief: Yeura R. Venters, Public Defender, and Robert D.
                 Essex, for appellant.

                  APPEAL from the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas

TYACK, J.
        {¶ 1} Charles J. Harvey, Jr., is appealing from the sentence he received as a result
of his failure to support his child. He assigns a single error for our consideration:
                 The trial court erred in failing to hold a hearing to determine
                 if appellant should have been awarded jail time credit for time
                 spent at Alvis House.

        {¶ 2} Harvey was indicted on August 17, 2011 after failing to support his child for
years—specifically July 2009 to July 2011. He eventually entered a guilty plea and was
sentenced. The trial court judge suspended his sentence and placed him on community
control. About one year after sentencing, he was declared an absconder.
        {¶ 3} The trial court judge restored Harvey to community control, but added a
condition that Harvey enter and successfully complete Alvis House Work Release Program.
No. 17AP-673                                                                                2

       {¶ 4} Harvey absconded again and was not arrested for over two years. His
statement of violation was an extensive list and included a conviction. The trial court judge
assigned to the case awarded Harvey jail-time credit of 110 days for time he was clearly
incarcerated. His counsel asked for an additional 82 days for the time Harvey allegedly
spent in the Alvis House program. The judge did not give the additional days of jail-time
credit because the judge did not believe that Harvey's movement was sufficiently restricted
to allow it to be considered jail-time credit.
       {¶ 5} This appeal centers on the time spent in the program at Alvis House. The
assignment of error complains that Harvey did not get a hearing on the issue of the
additional jail-time credit. In fact, the trial court judge did conduct a hearing on the issue
of whether Harvey's community control should be revoked. The judge believed that the
Alvis House program had not been demonstrated to be sufficiently restrictive to qualify
Harvey's time in the program for jail-time credit. We cannot say the trial court judge was
wrong, given the record before us.
       {¶ 6} As a result, we overrule the sole assignment of error. We affirm the judgment
of the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas.
                                                                        Judgment affirmed.

                            KLATT and BRUNNER, JJ., concur.