Court Opinion

ID: 3703099
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-07-06 06:40:54.939222+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:40:21.262683
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In an accelerated appeal, defendant Lee M. Milano argues that the trial court erroneously refused to hear or consider his motion for shock probation.
Shock probation is unavailable to a defendant serving a period of "actual incarceration." R.C. 2947.061. Milano claims he was not sentenced to a period of actual incarceration, but, rather, he was given a "mandatory" sentence.
R.C. 2925.03(C)(4) mandated the imposition of an eighteen-month period of actual incarceration in this case and the trial court had no discretion to impose a lesser sentence. See State v. Oxenrider (1979), 60 Ohio St.2d 60, 14 O.O.3d 235,396 N.E.2d 1034. We find in the court's use of the phrase "mandatory eighteen months" the same restrictions on shock probation as meant by the phrase "actual incarceration." SeeState v. Smith (1989), 42 Ohio St.3d 60, 537 N.E.2d 198;Oxenrider, supra. Cf. State v. Cravens (1988), 42 Ohio App.3d 69,  536 N.E.2d 686. Milano is, thus, ineligible for shock probation.
Milano further claims error because the court did not hold a hearing. Milano was statutorily ineligible for shock probation; therefore, a hearing could not have produced a different result. See State v. Delaney (1983), 9 Ohio App.3d 47, 9 OBR 50,458 N.E.2d 462.
The sole assignment of error fails.
Judgment affirmed.
ANN MCMANAMON, C.J., DAVID T. MATIA and FRANCIS E. SWEENEY, JJ., concur. *Page 286