STATE OF OHIO, Plаintiff-Appellee, - vs - CHRISTOPHER L. McBRIDE, Defendant-Appellant.
CASE NO. 2017-T-0050
IN THE COURT OF APPEALS ELEVENTH APPELLATE DISTRICT TRUMBULL COUNTY, OHIO
December 22, 2017
[Cite as State v. McBride, 2017-Ohio-9349.]
CYNTHIA WESTCOTT RICE, P.J.
Criminal Appeal from the Trumbull County Court of Common Pleas, Case No. 2002 CR 00517. Judgment: Modified and affirmed as modified.
Christopher McBride, pro se, PID: A444-136, Trumbull Correctional Institution, P.O. Box 901, 5701 Burnett Road, Leavittsburg, OH 44430 (Dеfendant-Appellant).
O P I N I O N
CYNTHIA WESTCOTT RICE, P.J.
{¶1} Appellant, Christopher L. McBride, appeals the judgment of the Trumbull County Court of Common Pleas denying his motion for resentencing, which was filed 14 years after his guilty plеa and sentencing on multiple counts of aggravated robbery, aggravated burglary, kidnapping, rape, and related felonies. At issue is whether the trial court erred in denying the motiоn. For the reasons that follow, we modify the judgment and affirm as modified.
{¶3} On March 31, 2003, thе case came on for sentencing. The court noted in its sentencing entry that appellant “terrorized a minor, a 71-year-old widow, and a 51-year-old professional womаn, whom he raped in her own house.” The court also noted appellant has an extensive criminal history. The court sentenced appellant to seven years in prisоn on five of the felony-ones, and five years on one of the felony-twos, each of which was ordered to be served consecutively to the other, for a total of 40 yеars. The court also sentenced appellant to seven years on two other felony-ones, six years on one felony-two, and one year on the felony-four, eаch of which was to be served concurrently.
{¶4} Appellant did not file a direct appeal of his conviction. Seven years later, in November 2010, he filed a pro se pеtition for relief after judgment. The trial court dismissed the petition. Again, appellant did not appeal that ruling.
{¶5} On October 30, 2015, some 13 years after his sentencing, appellant filed а pro se motion to withdraw his guilty plea. Appellant did not argue his plea was involuntary or otherwise invalid; instead, he asked for a resentencing, arguing the trial court in its sentencing еntry failed to set forth the order in which his consecutive sentences were to be served. The trial court denied the motion and appellant appealed
{¶6} Appellant then filed a motion to reopen his appeal in McBride I, which this court denied.
{¶7} In March 2017, the trial court resentenced appellant via a nunc pro tunc sentencing entry pursuant to this court‘s remand in McBride I.
{¶8} One month later, on April 24, 2017, appellant filed the instant motion for resentencing. The trial court denied the motion. He now appeals the trial court‘s judgment, asserting the following as his sole assignment of error:
{¶9} “The trial court erred in denying McBride‘s Motion for Resentencing in violation of his Due Process protections under the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and Article I, Section 10 of the Ohio Constitution.”
{¶10} As a preliminary matter, we note that appellant has failed to file a transcript of his guilty plea hearing or of his sentencing hеaring. Our review is thus limited to a consideration of the trial court‘s docket and judgment entries.
{¶11} Appellant argues that he is entitled to resentencing, pursuant to State v. Hand, 149 Ohio St.3d 94, 2016-Ohio-5504. The Ohio Supreme Court in Hand held that
{¶12} Appellant argues that Hand applies to all sentencing statutes, including
{¶13} The Ohio Supreme Court, in State v. Marcum, 146 Ohio St.3d 516, 2016-Ohio-1002, held that aрpellate courts must apply the standard of review set forth in
{¶14} Further, as the Ohio Supreme Court has held,
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{¶16} Further,
{¶17} Since Foster requires the sentencing court to consider the factors in
{¶18} We therefore hold the trial court did not err in considering appellant‘s juvenile adjudications in imposing his more-than-the-minimum and consecutive
{¶19} Contrary to the state‘s brief, appellant does not argue that the trial court improperly imposed a mandatory sentence on him due to his juvenile delinquency adjudications. In fact, appellant does not challenge the mandatory nature of his sentence on appeal. Rather, it is the state that raises this issue. The state argues that “a mandatory sentence was not aрpropriate in this case.” (This argument applies to Counts 1-3, 6-8, and 10 as these are the only counts on which the trial court imposed mandatory sentences.) However, the statе argues that the error in imposing a mandatory sentence is harmless because the court made the necessary findings for consecutive sentences and, but for the mandatory language, the sentence would have been the same. Thus, the state asks this court to either: (1) strike the reference in the court‘s nunc pro tunc sentencing entry to the sentences being mandatory, or to (2) remand for the trial court to exclude the “mandatory” language from the sentencing entry.
{¶20} Pursuant to the court‘s nunc pro tunc sentencing entry, the court incorrectly imposed mandatory sentences on appellant‘s guilty plea to the instant counts because he was not previously convicted of a first or second-degree felony. See
{¶21} Appellant‘s assignment of error lacks merit and is overruled. We therefore hold that the trial court did not err in sentencing appellant with the limited excеption of the reference in the sentencing entry to the sentences on the subject counts being
{¶22} For the reasons stated in the opinion of this court, it is the judgment and order of this court that the judgment of the Trumbull County Court of Common Pleas is hereby modified and affirmed as modified.
COLLEEN MARY O‘TOOLE, J., concurs,
DIANE V. GRENDELL, J., concurs in judgment only.