2017 Ohio 8370
Ohio
2017

*1 [Until this opinion appears in the Ohio Official Reports advance sheets, it may be cited as State v. Brown, Slip Opinion No. 2017-Ohio-8370.]

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S LIP O PINION N O . 2017-O HIO -8370 T HE S TATE OF O HIO , A PPELLEE , v. B ROWN , A PPELLANT . [Until this opinion appears in the Ohio Official Reports advance sheets, it

may be cited as State v. Brown, Slip Opinion No. 2017-Ohio-8370.] Certification of conflict dismissed as having been improvidently certified.

(No. 2016-1652—Submitted June 21, 2017—Decided November 1, 2017.)

C ERTIFIED by the Court of Appeals for Richland County, No. 16CA15, 2016-Ohio-5893. _______________ {¶ 1} The certification of conflict is dismissed, sua sponte, as having been improvidently certified.

O’C ONNOR , C.J., and O’D ONNELL , K ENNEDY , F RENCH , O’N EILL , F ISCHER , and D E W INE , JJ., concur.

_______________ Michael DeWine, Attorney General, Eric E. Murphy, State Solicitor, and Michael J. Hendershot, Chief Deputy Solicitor; and Gary D. Bishop, Richland

S UPREME C OURT OF O HIO County Prosecuting Attorney, and Jodie M. Schumacher, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for appellee.

Timothy Young, Ohio Public Defender, and Stephen P. Hardwick, Assistant Public Defender, for appellant.

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