*1 [Until this opinion appears in the Ohio Official Reports advance sheets, it may be cited as State v. Hand, Slip Opinion No. 2016-Ohio-8355.]

NOTICE This slip opinion is subject to formal revision before it is published in an advance sheet of the Ohio Official Reports. Readers are requested to promptly notify the Reporter of Decisions, Supreme Court of Ohio, 65 South Front Street, Columbus, Ohio 43215, of any typographical or other formal errors in the opinion, in order that corrections may be made before the opinion is published.

S LIP O PINION N O . 2016-O HIO -8355 T HE S TATE OF O HIO , A PPELLEE , v. H AND , A PPELLANT .

[Until this opinion appears in the Ohio Official Reports advance sheets, it

may be cited as State v. Hand, Slip Opinion No. 2016-Ohio-8355.] Appeal dismissed as having been improvidently accepted.

(No. 2015-0652—Submitted December 13, 2016—Decided December 27, 2016.)

A PPEAL from the Court of Appeals for Montgomery County,

No. 25840. _______________ {¶ 1} The cause is dismissed as having been improvidently accepted. O’C ONNOR , C.J., and P FEIFER , O’D ONNELL , L ANZINGER , F RENCH , and O’N EILL , JJ., concur.

K ENNEDY , J., dissents.

_________________ Mathias H. Heck Jr., Montgomery County Prosecuting Attorney, and Andrew T. French, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for appellee.

S UPREME C OURT OF O HIO Timothy Young, Ohio Public Defender, and Sheryl Trzaska, Assistant Public Defender, for appellant.

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