Court Opinion

ID: 9896444
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-11-11 20:11:03.412748+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:15:00.988532
License: Public Domain

[Cite as State v. McIntosh, 2023-Ohio-4022.]

IN THE COURT OF APPEALS

TWELFTH APPELLATE DISTRICT OF OHIO

BUTLER COUNTY
STATE OF OHIO,
Appellee, CASE NO. CA2022-04-040
OPINION
vg - 11/6/2023

JAMES E. McINTOSH,

Appellant.

CRIMINAL APPEAL FROM BUTLER COUNTY COURT OF COMMON PLEAS
Case No. CR2020-09-1281

Michael T. Gmoser, Butler County Prosecuting Attorney, and Michael Greer, Assistant
Prosecuting Attorney, for appellee.

Repper-Pagan Law, Ltd., and Christopher J. Pagan, for appellant.

BYRNE, J.

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Rule 7: On 03/08/2022 the offender admitted to getting
prescriptions for Lyrica and Ambien and then misusing those

prescriptions. An admission form was signed.

Rule 14: The offender was unsuccessfully discharged from
Sojourner programming on 03/08/2022.

The court, through its magistrate, held a probable cause hearing at which Mcintosh was
present. A probation officer repeated the allegations. Based on the testimony, the court
found probable cause that Mclntosh had violated the conditions of his supervision.
Accordingly, the court scheduled Mcintosh for a revocation hearing.

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1. Rule 7 Violation

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administer drugs or to prepare them for administration, unless
it is lawfully prescribed for me by a licensed physician. |
agree to inform my supervising officer promptly of any such
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(Bold emphasis added.) The Butler County probation department asserted that McIntosh

violated Rule 7 by "misusing" his prescriptions for Lyrica and Ambien.

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1. In support of his contention that his Lyrica and Ambien prescriptions were meant to address his mental
health issues, McIntosh cites an exchange that occurred at trial between the prosecutor and one of the doctors
who evaluated Mcintosh. Our review of this testimony does not clearly indicate to us that the doctor testified
that these medications were for mental health treatment. That is, there is some ambiguity in the testimony.
Regardless, for purposes of our analysis we assume that the Lyrica and Ambien prescriptions were prescribed
to address Mcintosh's mental health issues.

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