Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2014-08-01 19:37:56.034496+00
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[Cite as State v. Bradshaw, 2014-Ohio-3148.]

                             IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF OHIO
                                FOURTH APPELLATE DISTRICT
                                     LAWRENCE COUNTY

STATE OF OHIO,                                 :   Case No. 14CA8

        Plaintiff-Appellee,                    :

        v.                                     :   DECISION AND
                                                   JUDGMENT ENTRY
DALLAS BRADSHAW,                               :

        Defendant-Appellant.                   :   RELEASED: 7/14/2014

                                           APPEARANCES:

Dallas Matthew Bradshaw, Caldwell, Ohio, pro se appellant.

Brigham M. Anderson, Lawrence County Prosecuting Attorney, Ironton, Ohio, for
appellee.
Harsha, J.
        {¶1}    The court found Dallas Bradshaw guilty of violating the conditions of his

community control and sentenced him to a 30-month prison term. In the judgment entry

the trial court gave Bradshaw 55 days credit for time served, as well as additional days

that he would spend in custody while he awaited transportation to prison. Bradshaw did

not timely appeal the judgment and instead filed a motion seeking additional jail-time

credit. The trial court denied Bradshaw’s motion, and he appealed.

        {¶2}    Bradshaw claims in his assignments of error that the trial court erred by

denying his motion for additional jail-time credit. In essence, Bradshaw contests the

trial court’s determination of jail-time credit in its judgment imposing a prison term for his

violation of community control, but he did not timely appeal from that judgment. Res

judicata bars Bradshaw from raising his jail-time credit claim through postconviction

motions because he was represented by counsel during the proceedings and could
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have raised the issue on direct appeal from his sentence. Therefore, we overrule his

assignments of error and affirm the judgment of the trial court.

                                        I. FACTS

       {¶3}   After Bradshaw admitted the state’s allegations that he had violated the

conditions of his community control, the Lawrence County Court of Common Pleas

found that he had violated his community control and imposed a sentence of 30 months

in prison. The trial court’s judgment entry granted Bradshaw 55 days credit for time

served as well as “future custody days while the Defendant awaits transportation to the

appropriate state penal institution.” Bradshaw was represented by counsel during these

proceedings, and he did not appeal his sentence.

       {¶4}   Instead of appealing his sentence, Bradshaw filed a motion for jail-time

credit, which the trial court denied. The trial court determined that Bradshaw had been

credited with 91 days of jail-time credit and that he was not entitled to any more.

       {¶5}   This appeal ensued.

                             II. ASSIGNMENTS OF ERROR

       {¶6}   Bradshaw assigns the following errors for our review:

       1. The trial court erred and abused it’s [sic] discretion by miscalculating
          jail time credit.

       2. The trial court erred and abused it’s [sic] discretion when it failed to
          grant credit of 168 days towards Appellant’s sentenced [sic] from GPS
          Electronic Monitored Home Confinement.

                                III. LAW AND ANALYSIS

       {¶7}   In his first assignment of error, Bradshaw asserts that the trial court erred

by miscalculating his jail-time credit. In his second assignment of error, he claims that
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the trial court erred when it failed to grant him 168 days of credit for the time he spent in

GPS electronic monitored home confinement.

       {¶8}   In his motion Campbell did not cite the September 2012 amendment to

R.C. 2929.119(B)(2)(g)(iii), which purports to confer the sentencing court with

“continuing jurisdiction to correct any error not previously raised at sentencing” in

making a jail-time credit determination in his filings in the trial court. Moreover, he does

not cite this statute on appeal. Campbell thus forfeited any potential reliance on this

provision on appeal. See State v. Walton, 4th Dist. Washington No. 13CA29, 2014-

Ohio-618, ¶ 14 (defendant forfeits issue for purposes of appeal when he fails to raise it

in a post-sentence motion). Therefore, we do not address that statute.

       {¶9}   “If a party fails to timely appeal a final order, matters that could have been

reviewed on appeal become res judicata and cannot be reviewed in related or

subsequent proceedings or appeals.” State v. Swayne, 4th Dist. Adams Nos. 12CA952,

12CA953, and 12CA954, 2013-Ohio-3747, ¶ 24. The applicability of res judicata is a

question of law, which we review de novo. State v. Tolliver, 4th Dist. Athens No.

12CA36, 2013-Ohio-3861, ¶ 12.

       {¶10} Res judicata barred Bradshaw from raising his claims for more jail-time

credit than had been provided by the trial court in its sentencing entry because he could

have raised his claims on direct appeal from his sentence. See State v. Spillan, 10th

Dist. Franklin Nos. 06AP-50, 06AP-51, 06AP-52, and 06AP-750, 2006-Ohio-4788, ¶ 12

(“res judicata bars appellant from raising the jail-time credit issue through the jail-time

credit motions and subsequent appeal of such motions, given that appellant,

represented by counsel, could have raised the issue on direct appeal from his
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sentences”); State v. Williams, 3d Dist. Allen No. 1-03-02, 2003-Ohio-2576, ¶ 10 (res

judicata barred appellant from raising claim for additional jail-time credit in

postconviction motion when he could have raised it in an appeal from his original

sentence).

       {¶11} Moreover, Bradshaw does not seek the correction of a mere mathematical

mistake or clerical error—he seeks a legal determination of his entitlement to additional

credit for periods of time he claims he was confined on the charges, including when he

was under GPS electronic monitored home confinement. See State v. Smiley, 10th

Dist. Franklin No. 11AP-266, 2012-Ohio-4126, ¶ 12 (“Appellant did not challenge the

issue of jail-time credit by way of a direct appeal, and because his motion for jail-time

credit involves a substantive claim, and not merely clerical error, we agree with the state

that his motion is barred under the doctrine of res judicata”); State v. Roberts, 10th Dist.

Franklin No. 10AP-729, 2011-Ohio-1760, ¶ 11 (res judicata barred motion for jail-time

credit because appellant’s claim “requires a legal determination, rather than the

correction of a mathematical error” when he “is claiming jail-time credit is due for a

category of time, not simply the correction of the number of days within that category”).

       {¶12} Although the trial court did not rely on res judicata to deny Bradshaw’s

motion for jail-time credit, reversal is not warranted even assuming that the court

applied an erroneous rationale. See Today & Tomorrow Heating & Cooling v.

Greenfield, 4th Dist. Highland No. 13CA14, 2014-Ohio-239, ¶ 16, quoting Stammco,

L.L.C. v. United Tel. Co. of Ohio, 136 Ohio St.3d 231, 2013-Ohio-3019, 994 N.E.2d 408,

¶ 51 (“ ‘a reviewing court should not reverse a correct judgment merely because it is

based on erroneous reasons’ ”).
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       {¶13} Therefore, we overrule Bradshaw’s first and second assignments of error.

                                     IV. CONCLUSION

       {¶14} Having overruled Bradshaw’s assignments of error, we affirm the

judgment of the trial court denying his motion for jail-time credit.

                                                                   JUDGMENT AFFIRMED.
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                                        JUDGMENT ENTRY

         It is ordered that the JUDGMENT IS AFFIRMED and that Appellant shall pay the
costs.

         The Court finds there were reasonable grounds for this appeal.

      It is ordered that a special mandate issue out of this Court directing the Lawrence
County Court of Common Pleas to carry this judgment into execution.

        IF A STAY OF EXECUTION OF SENTENCE AND RELEASE UPON BAIL HAS
BEEN PREVIOUSLY GRANTED BY THE TRIAL COURT OR THIS COURT, it is
temporarily continued for a period not to exceed sixty days upon the bail previously
posted. The purpose of a continued stay is to allow Appellant to file with the Supreme
Court of Ohio an application for a stay during the pendency of proceedings in that court.
If a stay is continued by this entry, it will terminate at the earlier of the expiration of the
sixty day period, or the failure of the Appellant to file a notice of appeal with the
Supreme Court of Ohio in the forty-five day appeal period pursuant to Rule II, Sec. 2 of
the Rules of Practice of the Supreme Court of Ohio. Additionally, if the Supreme Court
of Ohio dismisses the appeal prior to expiration of sixty days, the stay will terminate as
of the date of such dismissal.

      A certified copy of this entry shall constitute the mandate pursuant to Rule 27 of
the Rules of Appellate Procedure.

Abele, P.J. & Hoover, J.: Concur in Judgment and Opinion.

                                            For the Court

                                            BY: ________________________
                                                William H. Harsha, Judge

                                  NOTICE TO COUNSEL

       Pursuant to Local Rule No. 14, this document constitutes a final judgment
entry and the time period for further appeal commences from the date of filing
with the clerk.