State v. BarberState v. Barber
Rendered on the 5th day of March, 2010.
Mathias H. Heck, Jr., Pros. Attorney; R. Lynn Nothstine, Asst. Pros. Attorney, Atty. Reg. No.0061560, P.O. Box 972, Dayton, OH 45422
Attorneys for Plaintiff-Appellee
Curtis L. Barber, Inmate # 401-414, Lebanon Corr. Institution, P.O. Box 56, Lebanon, OH 45036
Defendant-Appellant, Pro Se
GRADY, J.:
{¶ 1} In 2001, Defendant was convicted in Case No. 2000CR497 of one сount of robbery and was sentenced to five years in prison, to be served concurrently with the sentence in Case No. 2000CR1272. In Case No. 2000CR1272 Defendant was convicted of aggravated robbery, felonious assаult, aggravated burglary, kidnaping,
{¶ 2} On August 7, 2008, the trial court resentеnced Defendant pursuant to
{¶ 3} Defendant timely appealed to this court from his re-sentencing.
FIRST ASSIGNMENT OF ERROR
{¶ 4} “DEFENDANT-APPELLANT WAS DEPRIVED OF THE EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL AT THE RE-SENTENCING HEARING WHERE THE RE-SENTENCING PROCESS IS VIOLATIVE OF THE DUE PROCESS CLAUSE OF THE OHIO AND U.S. CONSTITUTION AND CONTRARY TO THE SEPARATION OF
SECOND ASSIGNMENT OF ERROR
{¶ 5} “DEFENDANT-APPELLANT WAS DEPRIVED OF THE EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF TRIAL COUNSEL AT THE AUGUST 7, 2008 HEARING WHERE COUNSEL FAILED TO ARGUE THAT APPELLANT’S MAXIMUM SENTENCE OF THREE YEARS HAD EXPIRED IN 2003 AT THE LATEST.”
FOURTH ASSIGNMENT OF ERROR
{¶ 6} “DEFENDANT-APPELLANT WAS DEPRIVED OF THE EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL WHERE THE ATTORNEY FAILED TO OBJECT THAT THE RESENTENCING HEARING AND JUDGMENT VIOLATED APPELLANT’S RIGHT NOT TO BE SUBJECTED TO RETROACTIVE JUDICIAL ENLARGEMENT OF THE SENTENCING STATUTES CONTRARY TO DUE PROCESS OF LAW AS CONSTITUTING EX POST FACTO LEGISLATION AS WELL THE DOUBLE JEOPARDY CLAUSE OF THE OHIO AND UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION.”
{¶ 7} Defendant argues that his counsel at the re-sentencing hearing performed deficiently in several respects, and as a result Defendant was deprived of his Sixth Amendment right to the effective assistance of counsel. Counsel‘s performance will not be deemed ineffective unless and until counsel‘s performance is proved to have fallen below an objective standard of reasonable representation and, in addition, prejudiсe arises from counsel‘s performance. Strickland v. Washington (1984), 466 U.S. 668, 104 S. Ct. 2052, 80 L. Ed. 2d 674. To show that a defendant has been
{¶ 8} Defendant complains that his counsel at re-sentencing was ineffective for failing to object to the court’s reliance on State v. Foster, 109 Ohio St.3d 1, 2006-Ohio-856, in that thе court did not make any of the findings required by
{¶ 9} Defendant also complains that his сounsel was ineffective for failing to object that, due to Foster’s constitutional flaw, the court’s failure to make the
{¶ 10} Defendant also complains that his counsel was deficient for failing to object that because he had completed serving the minimum three year sentences that
{¶ 12} Defendant’s contentions regarding errors the trial court committed and to which his counsel failed to object at re-sentencing are beyond our review because Defеndant has failed to file a transcript of the August 7, 2008 re-sentencing hearing at which the alleged errors were committed. In that circumstance, the presumption that the court’s proceedings were regulаr and valid is not rebutted, and we necessarily conclude that no error occurred. Knapp v. Edwards Laboratories (1980), 61 Ohio St.2d 197; State v. Jones, Montgomery App. No. 20862, 2006-Ohio-2640. Furthermore, it is clear that none of Defendant’s contentions are supportable.
{¶ 13} This court and others have held that Foster does not violate the constitutional requirements of due process, the ex post facto or double jeopardy clauses, or the separation of powers doctrine. State v. Smith, Montgomery App. No. 22334, 2008-Ohio-6630; State v. North, Clark App. No. 07CA0059, 2008-Ohio-6239; State v. Jordan, Greene App. No. 2006CA0106, 2007-Ohio-7163; State v. Benton, Lucas App. No. L-07-1305, 2008-Ohio-3850. Therefore, we could not find that Defendant’s counsel was ineffective for failing to object that those
{¶ 14}
{¶ 15} When a trial court fails to include the required post-release control notification in a sentence it imposes, the proper remedy is tо resentence the defendant at a hearing, notifying him of his post release control requirements. Id.; State v. Davis, Montgomery App. No. 22403, 2008-Ohio-6722;
{¶ 16} Defendant had not completed serving his forty-one and one-half year sentence at the time of the 2008 re-sentencing hearing, and therefore it was not improper for the court tо resentence him in order to advise him of the post release control requirements. Simpkins; Davis;
{¶ 17} Because Defendant has failed to produce a record that exemplifies his claimed errors, and has further failed to demonstrate any error on the part of the trial court in re-sentencing him in order to advise him about his post release control requirements, Defendant fails to demonstrate any deficient performance by counsel in not objecting to the resentencing, much less any resulting prejudice. Ineffective assistance of counsel has therefore not been demonstrated.
{¶ 18} Defendant’s first, second and fourth assignments of error are overruled.
THIRD ASSIGNMENT OF ERROR
{¶ 19} “DEFENDANT-APPELLANT WAS DEPRIVED OF THE EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL AT THE AUGUST 7, 2008 RE-SENTENCING HEARING
{¶ 20} Defendant argues that his counsel at the re-sentencing hearing performed deficiently because he failed to challenge Defendant’s conviction on the aggravated robbery, aggravated burglary and kidnaping charges. Relying upon State v. Colon, 118 Ohio St.3d 26, 2008-Ohio-1624, Defendant сlaims that his convictions on those charges are void because the indictment does not include any culpable mental state for those charges.
{¶ 21} In State v. Colon (“Colon I”), the Supreme Court held that the particular еrror alleged is structural, rendering a resulting conviction void. Subsequently, in State v. Colon, 119 Ohio St.3d 204, 2008-Ohio-3749 (“Colon II”), the Supreme Court reconsidered its prior holding and held that the error is not void but voidable only, as plain error when the defect does nоt permeate the fairness of the trial proceeding and the defendant failed to object to the defect.
{¶ 22} Defendant argues that he was denied the effective assistance of counsеl at resentencing because his counsel failed to object to the defects in the indictment of which Defendant complains. At that point, the alleged error would have been waived for failure tо object prior to trial.
{¶ 23} Defendant’s third assignment of error is overruled.
{¶ 24} In a supplemental brief, Defendant presents two additional assignments of error.
FIRST SUPPLEMENTAL ASSIGNMENT OF ERROR
{¶ 25} “THE TRIAL COURT ERRED IN IMPOSING MULTIPLE PUNISHMENT FOR ALLIED OFFENSE.”
SECOND SUPPLEMENTAL ASSIGNMENT OF ERROR
{¶ 26} “TRIAL COURT ERRED FOR IMPOSING A SENTENCE FOR A CRIME THAT APPELLANT WAS NEVER CHARGED WITH.”
{¶ 27} In State v. Winn, 121 Ohio St.3d 413, 2009-Ohio-1059, the Ohio Supreme Court recently held that kidnapping,
{¶ 28} As we stated in overruling Defendant’s third assignment of error, Defendant’s claim that his indictment was defective due tо a Colon error is outside the scope of this appeal, and is barred by res judicata because that claim could have been raised in Defendant’s previous direct appeal from his conviсtion. North; Henderson.
{¶ 29} With respect to the allied offenses issue, we note that the trial court did merge some of the offenses for purposes of sentencing, including the felonious assault and all of the attempted aggravated murder counts. We further note that the record before us does not include either a transcript of the August 7, 2008 re-sentencing hearing or the trial transcript in Case No. 2000CR1272. Absent those materials, this recоrd is inadequate to permit a review of the claimed error because we are unable to review Defendant’s conduct to determine whether Defendant’s offenses of kidnaping and aggravated robbery were committed separately or with a separate animus as to each.
{¶ 30} Defendant’s supplemental assignments of error are overruled. The judgment of the trial court will be affirmed.
DONOVAN, P.J. And HARSHA, J., concur.
(Hon. William H. Harsha, Fourth District Court of Appeals, sitting by assignment of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio.)
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