Court Opinion

ID: 3691805
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-07-06 06:33:59.010096+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:56:26.960497
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DECISION AND JUDGMENT ENTRY
{¶ 1} Pursuant to the authority of 6th Dist. Loc. App. R. 12(C), this court sua sponte places this case on the accelerated docket. This is an appeal from the judgment of the Fulton County Court of Common Pleas which sentenced appellant, William E. Smith, on May 29, 2002. Appellant entered a plea of guilty to two counts of rape, each a felony of the first degree, and was sentenced to six years on the first count and five years on the second, to be run consecutively. Appellant timely appealed the judgment entry of the trial court and raises the following assignments of error:
 {¶ 2} "1. The Fulton County Court of Common Pleas, committed reversible error in applying the standards of R.C. 2929.14(E)(4) when imposing consecutive sentences upon the defendant.
 {¶ 3} "2. Trial court committed error when imposing consecutive sentences totaling eleven (11) years upon the defendant.
 {¶ 4} "3. Trial court committed error when imposing consecutive sentences without stating the reasons for doing so under R.C. 2929.14."
 {¶ 5} The parties agree, and it is clear from the record, that the trial court failed to make all the appropriate findings, as required by R.C. 2929.14(E)(4), in imposing consecutive sentences. Accordingly, we find appellant's first assignment of error well-taken.
 {¶ 6} In his second assignment of error, appellant establishes that he has a right to seek leave to appeal his sentence; however, he fails to set forth any alleged error. Accordingly, there being no basis upon which we could find error, we find appellant's second assignment of error not well-taken.
 {¶ 7} Appellant argues in his third assignment of error that the trial court failed to state its reasons on the record for imposing consecutive sentences, as required by R.C. 2929.19(B)(2)(c). Insofar as this matter must be remanded for resentencing, due to the trial court's failure to make all the appropriate findings pursuant to R.C. 2929.14(E)(4), we find that appellant's third assignment of error is moot and, therefore, found not well-taken.
 {¶ 8} On consideration whereof, this court hereby vacates the judgment entry of sentencing of the Fulton County Court of Common Pleas. This matter is remanded to the trial court for resentencing in accordance with R.C. Chapter 2929. Costs to appellee.
JUDGMENT VACATED.
Peter M. Handwork, P.J., Richard W. Knepper, J., and Mark L.Pietrykowski, P.J., CONCUR.