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To amend sections 2743.51, 2743.60, 2743.65, 2929.01, | 1 |
2929.13, and 2929.14 and to enact sections | 2 |
2743.611 and 2941.1424 of the Revised Code to | 3 |
require an additional definite term of | 4 |
imprisonment of 5 to 10 years for an offender who | 5 |
is convicted of or pleads guilty to a felony | 6 |
offense of violence if the offender is convicted | 7 |
of or pleads guilty to a specification that the | 8 |
victim suffered permanent disabling harm and to | 9 |
establish a procedure for the Attorney General to | 10 |
award additional reparations to a claimant if a | 11 |
victim suffered catastrophic disabling harm from | 12 |
the injury sustained due to the criminal conduct | 13 |
giving rise to the claim. | 14 |
Section 1. That sections 2743.51, 2743.60, 2743.65, 2929.01, | 15 |
2929.13, and 2929.14 be amended and sections 2743.611 and | 16 |
2941.1424 of the Revised Code be enacted to read as follows: | 17 |
Sec. 2743.51. As used in sections 2743.51 to 2743.72 of the | 18 |
Revised Code: | 19 |
(A) "Claimant" means both of the following categories of | 20 |
persons: | 21 |
(1) Any of the following persons who claim an award of | 22 |
reparations under sections 2743.51 to 2743.72 of the Revised Code: | 23 |
(a) A victim who was one of the following at the time of the | 24 |
criminally injurious conduct: | 25 |
(i) A resident of the United States; | 26 |
(ii) A resident of a foreign country the laws of which permit | 27 |
residents of this state to recover compensation as victims of | 28 |
offenses committed in that country. | 29 |
(b) A dependent of a deceased victim who is described in | 30 |
division (A)(1)(a) of this section; | 31 |
(c) A third person, other than a collateral source, who | 32 |
legally assumes or voluntarily pays the obligations of a victim, | 33 |
or of a dependent of a victim, who is described in division | 34 |
(A)(1)(a) of this section, which obligations are incurred as a | 35 |
result of the criminally injurious conduct that is the subject of | 36 |
the claim and may include, but are not limited to, medical or | 37 |
burial expenses; | 38 |
(d) A person who is authorized to act on behalf of any person | 39 |
who is described in division (A)(1)(a), (b), or (c) of this | 40 |
section; | 41 |
(e) The estate of a deceased victim who is described in | 42 |
division (A)(1)(a) of this section. | 43 |
(2) Any of the following persons who claim an award of | 44 |
reparations under sections 2743.51 to 2743.72 of the Revised Code: | 45 |
(a) A victim who had a permanent place of residence within | 46 |
this state at the time of the criminally injurious conduct and | 47 |
who, at the time of the criminally injurious conduct, complied | 48 |
with any one of the following: | 49 |
(i) Had a permanent place of employment in this state; | 50 |
(ii) Was a member of the regular armed forces of the United | 51 |
States or of the United States coast guard or was a full-time | 52 |
member of the Ohio organized militia or of the United States army | 53 |
reserve, naval reserve, or air force reserve; | 54 |
(iii) Was retired and receiving social security or any other | 55 |
retirement income; | 56 |
(iv) Was sixty years of age or older; | 57 |
(v) Was temporarily in another state for the purpose of | 58 |
receiving medical treatment; | 59 |
(vi) Was temporarily in another state for the purpose of | 60 |
performing employment-related duties required by an employer | 61 |
located within this state as an express condition of employment or | 62 |
employee benefits; | 63 |
(vii) Was temporarily in another state for the purpose of | 64 |
receiving occupational, vocational, or other job-related training | 65 |
or instruction required by an employer located within this state | 66 |
as an express condition of employment or employee benefits; | 67 |
(viii) Was a full-time student at an academic institution, | 68 |
college, or university located in another state; | 69 |
(ix) Had not departed the geographical boundaries of this | 70 |
state for a period exceeding thirty days or with the intention of | 71 |
becoming a citizen of another state or establishing a permanent | 72 |
place of residence in another state. | 73 |
(b) A dependent of a deceased victim who is described in | 74 |
division (A)(2)(a) of this section; | 75 |
(c) A third person, other than a collateral source, who | 76 |
legally assumes or voluntarily pays the obligations of a victim, | 77 |
or of a dependent of a victim, who is described in division | 78 |
(A)(2)(a) of this section, which obligations are incurred as a | 79 |
result of the criminally injurious conduct that is the subject of | 80 |
the claim and may include, but are not limited to, medical or | 81 |
burial expenses; | 82 |
(d) A person who is authorized to act on behalf of any person | 83 |
who is described in division (A)(2)(a), (b), or (c) of this | 84 |
section; | 85 |
(e) The estate of a deceased victim who is described in | 86 |
division (A)(2)(a) of this section. | 87 |
(B) "Collateral source" means a source of benefits or | 88 |
advantages for economic loss otherwise reparable that the victim | 89 |
or claimant has received, or that is readily available to the | 90 |
victim or claimant, from any of the following sources: | 91 |
(1) The offender; | 92 |
(2) The government of the United States or any of its | 93 |
agencies, a state or any of its political subdivisions, or an | 94 |
instrumentality of two or more states, unless the law providing | 95 |
for the benefits or advantages makes them excess or secondary to | 96 |
benefits under sections 2743.51 to 2743.72 of the Revised Code; | 97 |
(3) Social security, medicare, and medicaid; | 98 |
(4) State-required, temporary, nonoccupational disability | 99 |
insurance; | 100 |
(5) Workers' compensation; | 101 |
(6) Wage continuation programs of any employer; | 102 |
(7) Proceeds of a contract of insurance payable to the victim | 103 |
for loss that the victim sustained because of the criminally | 104 |
injurious conduct; | 105 |
(8) A contract providing prepaid hospital and other health | 106 |
care services, or benefits for disability; | 107 |
(9) That portion of the proceeds of all contracts of | 108 |
insurance payable to the claimant on account of the death of the | 109 |
victim that exceeds fifty thousand dollars; | 110 |
(10) Any compensation recovered or recoverable under the laws | 111 |
of another state, district, territory, or foreign country because | 112 |
the victim was the victim of an offense committed in that state, | 113 |
district, territory, or country. | 114 |
"Collateral source" does not include any money, or the | 115 |
monetary value of any property, that is subject to sections | 116 |
2969.01 to 2969.06 of the Revised Code or that is received as a | 117 |
benefit from the Ohio public safety officers death benefit fund | 118 |
created by section 742.62 of the Revised Code. | 119 |
(C) "Criminally injurious conduct" means one of the | 120 |
following: | 121 |
(1) For the purposes of any person described in division | 122 |
(A)(1) of this section, any conduct that occurs or is attempted in | 123 |
this state; poses a substantial threat of personal injury or | 124 |
death; and is punishable by fine, imprisonment, or death, or would | 125 |
be so punishable but for the fact that the person engaging in the | 126 |
conduct lacked capacity to commit the crime under the laws of this | 127 |
state. Criminally injurious conduct does not include conduct | 128 |
arising out of the ownership, maintenance, or use of a motor | 129 |
vehicle, except when any of the following applies: | 130 |
(a) The person engaging in the conduct intended to cause | 131 |
personal injury or death; | 132 |
(b) The person engaging in the conduct was using the vehicle | 133 |
to flee immediately after committing a felony or an act that would | 134 |
constitute a felony but for the fact that the person engaging in | 135 |
the conduct lacked the capacity to commit the felony under the | 136 |
laws of this state; | 137 |
(c) The person engaging in the conduct was using the vehicle | 138 |
in a manner that constitutes an OVI violation; | 139 |
(d) The conduct occurred on or after July 25, 1990, and the | 140 |
person engaging in the conduct was using the vehicle in a manner | 141 |
that constitutes a violation of section 2903.08 of the Revised | 142 |
Code; | 143 |
(e) The person engaging in the conduct acted in a manner that | 144 |
caused serious physical harm to a person and that constituted a | 145 |
violation of section 4549.02 or 4549.021 of the Revised Code. | 146 |
(2) For the purposes of any person described in division | 147 |
(A)(2) of this section, any conduct that occurs or is attempted in | 148 |
another state, district, territory, or foreign country; poses a | 149 |
substantial threat of personal injury or death; and is punishable | 150 |
by fine, imprisonment, or death, or would be so punishable but for | 151 |
the fact that the person engaging in the conduct lacked capacity | 152 |
to commit the crime under the laws of the state, district, | 153 |
territory, or foreign country in which the conduct occurred or was | 154 |
attempted. Criminally injurious conduct does not include conduct | 155 |
arising out of the ownership, maintenance, or use of a motor | 156 |
vehicle, except when any of the following applies: | 157 |
(a) The person engaging in the conduct intended to cause | 158 |
personal injury or death; | 159 |
(b) The person engaging in the conduct was using the vehicle | 160 |
to flee immediately after committing a felony or an act that would | 161 |
constitute a felony but for the fact that the person engaging in | 162 |
the conduct lacked the capacity to commit the felony under the | 163 |
laws of the state, district, territory, or foreign country in | 164 |
which the conduct occurred or was attempted; | 165 |
(c) The person engaging in the conduct was using the vehicle | 166 |
in a manner that constitutes an OVI violation; | 167 |
(d) The conduct occurred on or after July 25, 1990, the | 168 |
person engaging in the conduct was using the vehicle in a manner | 169 |
that constitutes a violation of any law of the state, district, | 170 |
territory, or foreign country in which the conduct occurred, and | 171 |
that law is substantially similar to a violation of section | 172 |
2903.08 of the Revised Code; | 173 |
(e) The person engaging in the conduct acted in a manner that | 174 |
caused serious physical harm to a person and that constituted a | 175 |
violation of any law of the state, district, territory, or foreign | 176 |
country in which the conduct occurred, and that law is | 177 |
substantially similar to section 4549.02 or 4549.021 of the | 178 |
Revised Code. | 179 |
(3) For the purposes of any person described in division | 180 |
(A)(1) or (2) of this section, terrorism that occurs within or | 181 |
outside the territorial jurisdiction of the United States. | 182 |
(D) "Dependent" means an individual wholly or partially | 183 |
dependent upon the victim for care and support, and includes a | 184 |
child of the victim born after the victim's death. | 185 |
(E) "Economic loss" means economic detriment consisting only | 186 |
of allowable expense, work loss, funeral expense, unemployment | 187 |
benefits loss, replacement services loss, cost of crime scene | 188 |
cleanup, and cost of evidence replacement. If criminally injurious | 189 |
conduct causes death, economic loss includes a dependent's | 190 |
economic loss and a dependent's replacement services loss. | 191 |
Noneconomic detriment is not economic loss; however, economic loss | 192 |
may be caused by pain and suffering or physical impairment. | 193 |
(F)(1) "Allowable expense" means reasonable charges incurred | 194 |
for reasonably needed products, services, and accommodations, | 195 |
including those for medical care, rehabilitation, rehabilitative | 196 |
occupational training, and other remedial treatment and care and | 197 |
including replacement costs for hearing aids; dentures, retainers, | 198 |
and other dental appliances; canes, walkers, and other mobility | 199 |
tools; and eyeglasses and other corrective lenses. It does not | 200 |
include that portion of a charge for a room in a hospital, clinic, | 201 |
convalescent home, nursing home, or any other institution engaged | 202 |
in providing nursing care and related services in excess of a | 203 |
reasonable and customary charge for semiprivate accommodations, | 204 |
unless accommodations other than semiprivate accommodations are | 205 |
medically required. | 206 |
(2) An immediate family member of a victim of criminally | 207 |
injurious conduct that consists of a homicide, a sexual assault, | 208 |
domestic violence, or a severe and permanent incapacitating injury | 209 |
resulting in paraplegia or a similar life-altering condition, who | 210 |
requires psychiatric care or counseling as a result of the | 211 |
criminally injurious conduct, may be reimbursed for that care or | 212 |
counseling as an allowable expense through the victim's | 213 |
application. The cumulative allowable expense for care or | 214 |
counseling of that nature shall not exceed two thousand five | 215 |
hundred dollars for each immediate family member of a victim of | 216 |
that type and seven thousand five hundred dollars in the aggregate | 217 |
for all immediate family members of a victim of that type. | 218 |
(3) A family member of a victim who died as a proximate | 219 |
result of criminally injurious conduct may be reimbursed as an | 220 |
allowable expense through the victim's application for wages lost | 221 |
and travel expenses incurred in order to attend criminal justice | 222 |
proceedings arising from the criminally injurious conduct. The | 223 |
cumulative allowable expense for wages lost and travel expenses | 224 |
incurred by a family member to attend criminal justice proceedings | 225 |
shall not exceed five hundred dollars for each family member of | 226 |
the victim and two thousand dollars in the aggregate for all | 227 |
family members of the victim. | 228 |
(4)(a) "Allowable expense" includes reasonable expenses and | 229 |
fees necessary to obtain a guardian's bond pursuant to section | 230 |
2109.04 of the Revised Code when the bond is required to pay an | 231 |
award to a fiduciary on behalf of a minor or other incompetent. | 232 |
(b) "Allowable expense" includes attorney's fees not | 233 |
exceeding one thousand dollars, at a rate not exceeding one | 234 |
hundred dollars per hour, incurred to successfully obtain a | 235 |
restraining order, custody order, or other order to physically | 236 |
separate a victim from an offender. Attorney's fees for the | 237 |
services described in this division may include an amount for | 238 |
reasonable travel time incurred to attend court hearings, not | 239 |
exceeding three hours' round-trip for each court hearing, assessed | 240 |
at a rate not exceeding thirty dollars per hour. | 241 |
(G) "Work loss" means loss of income from work that the | 242 |
injured person would have performed if the person had not been | 243 |
injured and expenses reasonably incurred by the person to obtain | 244 |
services in lieu of those the person would have performed for | 245 |
income, reduced by any income from substitute work actually | 246 |
performed by the person, or by income the person would have earned | 247 |
in available appropriate substitute work that the person was | 248 |
capable of performing but unreasonably failed to undertake. | 249 |
(H) "Replacement services loss" means expenses reasonably | 250 |
incurred in obtaining ordinary and necessary services in lieu of | 251 |
those the injured person would have performed, not for income, but | 252 |
for the benefit of the person's self or family, if the person had | 253 |
not been injured. | 254 |
(I) "Dependent's economic loss" means loss after a victim's | 255 |
death of contributions of things of economic value to the victim's | 256 |
dependents, not including services they would have received from | 257 |
the victim if the victim had not suffered the fatal injury, less | 258 |
expenses of the dependents avoided by reason of the victim's | 259 |
death. If a minor child of a victim is adopted after the victim's | 260 |
death, the minor child continues after the adoption to incur a | 261 |
dependent's economic loss as a result of the victim's death. If | 262 |
the surviving spouse of a victim remarries, the surviving spouse | 263 |
continues after the remarriage to incur a dependent's economic | 264 |
loss as a result of the victim's death. | 265 |
(J) "Dependent's replacement services loss" means loss | 266 |
reasonably incurred by dependents after a victim's death in | 267 |
obtaining ordinary and necessary services in lieu of those the | 268 |
victim would have performed for their benefit if the victim had | 269 |
not suffered the fatal injury, less expenses of the dependents | 270 |
avoided by reason of the victim's death and not subtracted in | 271 |
calculating the dependent's economic loss. If a minor child of a | 272 |
victim is adopted after the victim's death, the minor child | 273 |
continues after the adoption to incur a dependent's replacement | 274 |
services loss as a result of the victim's death. If the surviving | 275 |
spouse of a victim remarries, the surviving spouse continues after | 276 |
the remarriage to incur a dependent's replacement services loss as | 277 |
a result of the victim's death. | 278 |
(K) "Noneconomic detriment" means pain, suffering, | 279 |
inconvenience, physical impairment, or other nonpecuniary damage. | 280 |
(L) "Victim" means a person who suffers personal injury or | 281 |
death as a result of any of the following: | 282 |
(1) Criminally injurious conduct; | 283 |
(2) The good faith effort of any person to prevent criminally | 284 |
injurious conduct; | 285 |
(3) The good faith effort of any person to apprehend a person | 286 |
suspected of engaging in criminally injurious conduct. | 287 |
(M) "Contributory misconduct" means any conduct of the | 288 |
claimant or of the victim through whom the claimant claims an | 289 |
award of reparations that is unlawful or intentionally tortious | 290 |
and that, without regard to the conduct's proximity in time or | 291 |
space to the criminally injurious conduct, has a causal | 292 |
relationship to the criminally injurious conduct that is the basis | 293 |
of the claim. | 294 |
(N)(1) "Funeral expense" means any reasonable charges that | 295 |
are not in excess of seven thousand five hundred dollars per | 296 |
funeral and that are incurred for expenses directly related to a | 297 |
victim's funeral, cremation, or burial and any wages lost or | 298 |
travel expenses incurred by a family member of a victim in order | 299 |
to attend the victim's funeral, cremation, or burial. | 300 |
(2) An award for funeral expenses shall be applied first to | 301 |
expenses directly related to the victim's funeral, cremation, or | 302 |
burial. An award for wages lost or travel expenses incurred by a | 303 |
family member of the victim shall not exceed five hundred dollars | 304 |
for each family member and shall not exceed in the aggregate the | 305 |
difference between seven thousand five hundred dollars and | 306 |
expenses that are reimbursed by the program and that are directly | 307 |
related to the victim's funeral, cremation, or burial. | 308 |
(O) "Unemployment benefits loss" means a loss of unemployment | 309 |
benefits pursuant to Chapter 4141. of the Revised Code when the | 310 |
loss arises solely from the inability of a victim to meet the able | 311 |
to work, available for suitable work, or the actively seeking | 312 |
suitable work requirements of division (A)(4)(a) of section | 313 |
4141.29 of the Revised Code. | 314 |
(P) "OVI violation" means any of the following: | 315 |
(1) A violation of section 4511.19 of the Revised Code, of | 316 |
any municipal ordinance prohibiting the operation of a vehicle | 317 |
while under the influence of alcohol, a drug of abuse, or a | 318 |
combination of them, or of any municipal ordinance prohibiting the | 319 |
operation of a vehicle with a prohibited concentration of alcohol, | 320 |
a controlled substance, or a metabolite of a controlled substance | 321 |
in the whole blood, blood serum or plasma, breath, or urine; | 322 |
(2) A violation of division (A)(1) of section 2903.06 of the | 323 |
Revised Code; | 324 |
(3) A violation of division (A)(2), (3), or (4) of section | 325 |
2903.06 of the Revised Code or of a municipal ordinance | 326 |
substantially similar to any of those divisions, if the offender | 327 |
was under the influence of alcohol, a drug of abuse, or a | 328 |
combination of them, at the time of the commission of the offense; | 329 |
(4) For purposes of any person described in division (A)(2) | 330 |
of this section, a violation of any law of the state, district, | 331 |
territory, or foreign country in which the criminally injurious | 332 |
conduct occurred, if that law is substantially similar to a | 333 |
violation described in division (P)(1) or (2) of this section or | 334 |
if that law is substantially similar to a violation described in | 335 |
division (P)(3) of this section and the offender was under the | 336 |
influence of alcohol, a drug of abuse, or a combination of them, | 337 |
at the time of the commission of the offense. | 338 |
(Q) "Pendency of the claim" for an original reparations | 339 |
application or supplemental reparations application means the | 340 |
period of time from the date the criminally injurious conduct upon | 341 |
which the application is based occurred until the date a final | 342 |
decision, order, or judgment concerning that original reparations | 343 |
application or supplemental reparations application is issued. | 344 |
(R) "Terrorism" means any activity to which all of the | 345 |
following apply: | 346 |
(1) The activity involves a violent act or an act that is | 347 |
dangerous to human life. | 348 |
(2) The act described in division (R)(1) of this section is | 349 |
committed within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States | 350 |
and is a violation of the criminal laws of the United States, this | 351 |
state, or any other state or the act described in division (R)(1) | 352 |
of this section is committed outside the territorial jurisdiction | 353 |
of the United States and would be a violation of the criminal laws | 354 |
of the United States, this state, or any other state if committed | 355 |
within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States. | 356 |
(3) The activity appears to be intended to do any of the | 357 |
following: | 358 |
(a) Intimidate or coerce a civilian population; | 359 |
(b) Influence the policy of any government by intimidation or | 360 |
coercion; | 361 |
(c) Affect the conduct of any government by assassination or | 362 |
kidnapping. | 363 |
(4) The activity occurs primarily outside the territorial | 364 |
jurisdiction of the United States or transcends the national | 365 |
boundaries of the United States in terms of the means by which the | 366 |
activity is accomplished, the person or persons that the activity | 367 |
appears intended to intimidate or coerce, or the area or locale in | 368 |
which the perpetrator or perpetrators of the activity operate or | 369 |
seek asylum. | 370 |
(S) "Transcends the national boundaries of the United States" | 371 |
means occurring outside the territorial jurisdiction of the United | 372 |
States in addition to occurring within the territorial | 373 |
jurisdiction of the United States. | 374 |
(T) "Cost of crime scene cleanup" means any of the following: | 375 |
(1) The replacement cost for items of clothing removed from a | 376 |
victim in order to make an assessment of possible physical harm or | 377 |
to treat physical harm; | 378 |
(2) Reasonable and necessary costs of cleaning the scene and | 379 |
repairing, for the purpose of personal security, property damaged | 380 |
at the scene where the criminally injurious conduct occurred, not | 381 |
to exceed seven hundred fifty dollars in the aggregate per claim. | 382 |
(U) "Cost of evidence replacement" means costs for | 383 |
replacement of property confiscated for evidentiary purposes | 384 |
related to the criminally injurious conduct, not to exceed seven | 385 |
hundred fifty dollars in the aggregate per claim. | 386 |
(V) "Provider" means any person who provides a victim or | 387 |
claimant with a product, service, or accommodations that are an | 388 |
allowable expense or a funeral expense. | 389 |
(W) "Immediate family member" means an individual who resided | 390 |
in the same permanent household as a victim at the time of the | 391 |
criminally injurious conduct and who is related to the victim by | 392 |
affinity or consanguinity. | 393 |
(X) "Family member" means an individual who is related to a | 394 |
victim by affinity or consanguinity. | 395 |
(Y) "Catastrophic disabling harm" means a severe physical | 396 |
injury that causes a substantial and lifelong impairment to a | 397 |
victim's ability to perform the necessary daily activities | 398 |
required to care for one's self and maintain meaningful | 399 |
employment. | 400 |
(Z) "Catastrophic disability compensation" means compensation | 401 |
for which a claimant is eligible due to catastrophic disabling | 402 |
harm suffered by a victim. | 403 |
Sec. 2743.60. (A) The attorney general or the court of | 404 |
claims shall not make or order an award of reparations to a | 405 |
claimant if the criminally injurious conduct upon which the | 406 |
claimant bases a claim never was reported to a law enforcement | 407 |
officer or agency. | 408 |
(B)(1) The attorney general or the court of claims shall not | 409 |
make or order an award of reparations to a claimant if any of the | 410 |
following apply: | 411 |
(a) The claimant is the offender or an accomplice of the | 412 |
offender who committed the criminally injurious conduct, or the | 413 |
award would unjustly benefit the offender or accomplice. | 414 |
(b) Except as provided in division (B)(2) of this section, | 415 |
both of the following apply: | 416 |
(i) The victim was a passenger in a motor vehicle and knew or | 417 |
reasonably should have known that the driver was under the | 418 |
influence of alcohol, a drug of abuse, or both. | 419 |
(ii) The claimant is seeking compensation for injuries | 420 |
proximately caused by the driver described in division | 421 |
(B)(1)(b)(i) of this section being under the influence of alcohol, | 422 |
a drug of abuse, or both. | 423 |
(c) Both of the following apply: | 424 |
(i) The victim was under the influence of alcohol, a drug of | 425 |
abuse, or both and was a passenger in a motor vehicle and, if | 426 |
sober, should have reasonably known that the driver was under the | 427 |
influence of alcohol, a drug of abuse, or both. | 428 |
(ii) The claimant is seeking compensation for injuries | 429 |
proximately caused by the driver described in division | 430 |
(B)(1)(b)(i) of this section being under the influence of alcohol, | 431 |
a drug of abuse, or both. | 432 |
(2) Division (B)(1)(b) of this section does not apply if on | 433 |
the date of the occurrence of the criminally injurious conduct, | 434 |
the victim was under sixteen years of age or was at least sixteen | 435 |
years of age but less than eighteen years of age and was riding | 436 |
with a parent, guardian, or care-provider. | 437 |
(C) The attorney general or the court of claims, upon a | 438 |
finding that the claimant or victim has not fully cooperated with | 439 |
appropriate law enforcement agencies, may deny a claim or | 440 |
reconsider and reduce an award of reparations. | 441 |
(D) The attorney general or the court of claims shall reduce | 442 |
an award of reparations or deny a claim for an award of | 443 |
reparations that is otherwise payable to a claimant to the extent | 444 |
that the economic loss upon which the claim is based is recouped | 445 |
from other persons, including collateral sources. If an award is | 446 |
reduced or a claim is denied because of the expected recoupment of | 447 |
all or part of the economic loss of the claimant from a collateral | 448 |
source, the amount of the award or the denial of the claim shall | 449 |
be conditioned upon the claimant's economic loss being recouped by | 450 |
the collateral source. If the award or denial is conditioned upon | 451 |
the recoupment of the claimant's economic loss from a collateral | 452 |
source and it is determined that the claimant did not unreasonably | 453 |
fail to present a timely claim to the collateral source and will | 454 |
not receive all or part of the expected recoupment, the claim may | 455 |
be reopened and an award may be made in an amount equal to the | 456 |
amount of expected recoupment that it is determined the claimant | 457 |
will not receive from the collateral source. | 458 |
If the claimant recoups all or part of the economic loss upon | 459 |
which the claim is based from any other person or entity, | 460 |
including a collateral source, the attorney general may recover | 461 |
pursuant to section 2743.72 of the Revised Code the part of the | 462 |
award that represents the economic loss for which the claimant | 463 |
received the recoupment from the other person or entity. | 464 |
(E)(1) Except as otherwise provided in division (E)(2) of | 465 |
this section, the attorney general or the court of claims shall | 466 |
not make an award to a claimant if any of the following applies: | 467 |
(a) The victim was convicted of a felony within ten years | 468 |
prior to the criminally injurious conduct that gave rise to the | 469 |
claim or is convicted of a felony during the pendency of the | 470 |
claim. | 471 |
(b) The claimant was convicted of a felony within ten years | 472 |
prior to the criminally injurious conduct that gave rise to the | 473 |
claim or is convicted of a felony during the pendency of the | 474 |
claim. | 475 |
(c) It is proved by a preponderance of the evidence that the | 476 |
victim or the claimant engaged, within ten years prior to the | 477 |
criminally injurious conduct that gave rise to the claim or during | 478 |
the pendency of the claim, in an offense of violence, a violation | 479 |
of section 2925.03 of the Revised Code, or any substantially | 480 |
similar offense that also would constitute a felony under the laws | 481 |
of this state, another state, or the United States. | 482 |
(d) The claimant was convicted of a violation of section | 483 |
2919.22 or 2919.25 of the Revised Code, or of any state law or | 484 |
municipal ordinance substantially similar to either section, | 485 |
within ten years prior to the criminally injurious conduct that | 486 |
gave rise to the claim or during the pendency of the claim. | 487 |
(e) It is proved by a preponderance of the evidence that the | 488 |
victim at the time of the criminally injurious conduct that gave | 489 |
rise to the claim engaged in conduct that was a felony violation | 490 |
of section 2925.11 of the Revised Code or engaged in any | 491 |
substantially similar conduct that would constitute a felony under | 492 |
the laws of this state, another state, or the United States. | 493 |
(2) The attorney general or the court of claims may make an | 494 |
award to a minor dependent of a deceased victim for dependent's | 495 |
economic loss or for counseling pursuant to division (F)(2) of | 496 |
section 2743.51 of the Revised Code if the minor dependent is not | 497 |
ineligible under division (E)(1) of this section due to the minor | 498 |
dependent's criminal history and if the victim was not killed | 499 |
while engaging in illegal conduct that contributed to the | 500 |
criminally injurious conduct that gave rise to the claim. For | 501 |
purposes of this section, the use of illegal drugs by the deceased | 502 |
victim shall not be deemed to have contributed to the criminally | 503 |
injurious conduct that gave rise to the claim. | 504 |
(F) In determining whether to make an award of reparations | 505 |
pursuant to this section, the attorney general or the court of | 506 |
claims shall consider whether there was contributory misconduct by | 507 |
the victim or the claimant. The attorney general or the court of | 508 |
claims shall reduce an award of reparations or deny a claim for an | 509 |
award of reparations to the extent it is determined to be | 510 |
reasonable because of the contributory misconduct of the claimant | 511 |
or the victim. | 512 |
When the attorney general decides whether a claim should be | 513 |
denied because of an allegation of contributory misconduct, the | 514 |
burden of proof on the issue of that alleged contributory | 515 |
misconduct shall be upon the claimant, if either of the following | 516 |
apply: | 517 |
(1) The victim was convicted of a felony more than ten years | 518 |
prior to the criminally injurious conduct that is the subject of | 519 |
the claim or has a record of felony arrests under the laws of this | 520 |
state, another state, or the United States. | 521 |
(2) There is good cause to believe that the victim engaged in | 522 |
an ongoing course of criminal conduct within five years or less of | 523 |
the criminally injurious conduct that is the subject of the claim. | 524 |
(G) The attorney general or the court of claims shall not | 525 |
make an award of reparations to a claimant if the criminally | 526 |
injurious conduct that caused the injury or death that is the | 527 |
subject of the claim occurred to a victim who was an adult and | 528 |
while the victim, after being convicted of or pleading guilty to | 529 |
an offense, was serving a sentence of imprisonment in any | 530 |
detention facility, as defined in section 2921.01 of the Revised | 531 |
Code. | 532 |
(H) If a claimant unreasonably fails to present a claim | 533 |
timely to a source of benefits or advantages that would have been | 534 |
a collateral source and that would have reimbursed the claimant | 535 |
for all or a portion of a particular expense, the attorney general | 536 |
or the court of claims may reduce an award of reparations or deny | 537 |
a claim for an award of reparations to the extent that it is | 538 |
reasonable to do so. | 539 |
(I)(1) Reparations payable to a victim and to all other | 540 |
claimants sustaining economic loss because of injury to or the | 541 |
death of that victim shall not exceed fifty thousand dollars in | 542 |
the aggregate. If the attorney general or the court of claims | 543 |
reduces an award under division (F) of this section, the maximum | 544 |
aggregate amount of reparations payable under this division shall | 545 |
be reduced proportionately to the reduction under division (F) of | 546 |
this section. | 547 |
(2) After a victim exhausts the maximum allowable award | 548 |
amount under division (I)(1) of this section, a claimant may apply | 549 |
for catastrophic disability compensation for catastrophic | 550 |
disabling harm sustained by the victim as a result of criminally | 551 |
injurious conduct that gave rise to the claim pursuant to section | 552 |
2743.611 of the Revised Code. | 553 |
(J) Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit an | 554 |
award to a claimant whose claim is based on the claimant's being a | 555 |
victim of a violation of section 2905.32 of the Revised Code if | 556 |
the claimant was less than eighteen years of age when the | 557 |
criminally injurious conduct occurred. | 558 |
Sec. 2743.611. (A) Notwithstanding any award payable under | 559 |
division (I) of section 2743.60 of the Revised Code, the attorney | 560 |
general may award additional reparations to a claimant if a victim | 561 |
suffers catastrophic disabling harm as a result of the injury | 562 |
sustained from the criminally injurious conduct that gave rise to | 563 |
the claim. | 564 |
(B) The attorney general shall adopt rules under Chapter 119. | 565 |
of the Revised Code that establish criteria for finding victims to | 566 |
be eligible to receive catastrophic disability compensation under | 567 |
this section. | 568 |
(C)(1) The decision of the attorney general that the victim | 569 |
is eligible for catastrophic disability compensation under this | 570 |
section allows the claimant to be eligible for reparations of up | 571 |
to ten thousand dollars per year. The year begins on the date the | 572 |
attorney general issues the decision finding that the victim is | 573 |
eligible for catastrophic disability compensation. | 574 |
(2) The amount of the reparations under division (C)(1) of | 575 |
this section is limited to reimbursement for reasonably necessary | 576 |
medical products, medical services, and accommodations for medical | 577 |
care and treatment for the catastrophic disabling harm suffered by | 578 |
the victim. | 579 |
(D) A victim shall exhaust the maximum allowable award amount | 580 |
under division (I)(1) of section 2743.60 of the Revised Code | 581 |
before the victim may apply for catastrophic disability | 582 |
compensation. If the victim fails to exhaust the maximum allowable | 583 |
award amount under division (I)(1) of section 2743.60 of the | 584 |
Revised Code because a supplemental reparations application was | 585 |
not filed within the time limit provided in section 2743.68 of the | 586 |
Revised Code, the attorney general, for good cause shown, may | 587 |
waive the time limit provided in that section to allow for an | 588 |
application for a supplemental award to be made and the | 589 |
supplemental award to be issued. | 590 |
(E)(1) After a victim exhausts the maximum allowable award | 591 |
amount under division (I)(1) of section 2743.60 of the Revised | 592 |
Code, a claimant may apply for catastrophic disability | 593 |
compensation. Upon receiving the application, the attorney general | 594 |
shall determine whether the victim is eligible for an award of | 595 |
catastrophic disability compensation based on the criteria for | 596 |
eligibility in the rules adopted by the attorney general under | 597 |
division (B) of this section. | 598 |
(2) For the purpose of determining whether a victim is | 599 |
eligible for catastrophic disability compensation, the attorney | 600 |
general shall fully investigate the victim's injury resulting from | 601 |
the criminally injurious conduct that gave rise to the claim to | 602 |
determine if the victim suffered catastrophic disabling harm. | 603 |
Throughout the investigation under this division, the attorney | 604 |
general may utilize any investigative authority provided in | 605 |
section 2743.59 of the Revised Code. | 606 |
(3) Within ninety days after receiving the application under | 607 |
division (E)(1) of this section, the attorney general shall issue | 608 |
a decision that finds that the victim is either eligible, or not | 609 |
eligible, for catastrophic disability compensation. The attorney | 610 |
general may extend the ninety-day period under this division and, | 611 |
if the period is so extended, shall notify the claimant in writing | 612 |
of the extension and the specific reason for the extension. | 613 |
(4) The decision of the attorney general under division | 614 |
(E)(3) of this section shall be in writing and served upon the | 615 |
claimant by certified mail to the claimant's residence, return | 616 |
receipt requested. The decision shall contain both of the | 617 |
following: | 618 |
(a) A statement of the finding of whether the victim is | 619 |
eligible, or not eligible, for catastrophic disability | 620 |
compensation; | 621 |
(b) A summary stating the nature of the victim's injury and | 622 |
how the injury is related to the criminally injurious conduct that | 623 |
gave rise to the claim. | 624 |
(F)(1) If the decision of the attorney general under division | 625 |
(E)(4) of this section is that the victim is eligible for | 626 |
catastrophic disability compensation, the claimant may submit to | 627 |
the attorney general any documentation and other evidence of | 628 |
necessary medical products, medical services, and accommodations | 629 |
for medical care and treatment for the catastrophic disabling harm | 630 |
suffered by the victim. | 631 |
(2) The decision of the attorney general that the victim is | 632 |
eligible for catastrophic disability compensation is valid for one | 633 |
year after the date of the decision unless the attorney general | 634 |
determines, within that one-year period, that the victim is no | 635 |
longer suffering from the catastrophic disabling harm sustained | 636 |
from the criminally injurious conduct that gave rise to the claim. | 637 |
(G)(1) After the decision of the attorney general that the | 638 |
victim is eligible for catastrophic disability compensation | 639 |
expires under division (F)(2) of this section, the claimant may | 640 |
apply for supplemental catastrophic disability compensation. The | 641 |
attorney general shall determine the victim's eligibility for | 642 |
supplemental catastrophic disability compensation in the same | 643 |
manner as the attorney general determines the application for | 644 |
catastrophic disability compensation under division (E) of this | 645 |
section. | 646 |
(2) The claimant may continue to apply for supplemental | 647 |
catastrophic disability compensation for as long as the victim is | 648 |
suffering from the catastrophic disabling harm sustained from the | 649 |
criminally injurious conduct that gave rise to the claim. The | 650 |
amount of the reparations for supplemental catastrophic disability | 651 |
compensation shall not exceed ten thousand dollars in any | 652 |
twelve-month period following the attorney general's most recent | 653 |
determination that the victim is eligible for supplemental | 654 |
catastrophic disability compensation. | 655 |
(3) The amount of the reparations under division (G)(2) of | 656 |
this section is limited to reimbursement for reasonably necessary | 657 |
medical products, medical services, and accommodations for medical | 658 |
care and treatment for the catastrophic disabling harm suffered by | 659 |
the victim. | 660 |
(H)(1) If the attorney general denies the application under | 661 |
division (E) of this section upon a finding that the victim is not | 662 |
eligible for catastrophic disability compensation, the claimant | 663 |
may request a hearing within thirty days of the denial of the | 664 |
application. The attorney general shall schedule a hearing within | 665 |
thirty days of the claimant's request. | 666 |
(2) The attorney general shall appoint a hearing officer to | 667 |
conduct the hearing under division (H)(1) of this section. An | 668 |
administrative hearing conducted under that division is not | 669 |
subject to section 121.22 of the Revised Code. | 670 |
(3) The hearing officer shall issue its recommendations to | 671 |
the attorney general within ten days after the date the hearing | 672 |
concludes. The attorney general shall issue a decision within ten | 673 |
days after receiving the hearing officer's recommendations. The | 674 |
decision of the attorney general is final, and shall be served on | 675 |
the claimant by certified mail to the claimant's residence, return | 676 |
receipt requested. | 677 |
(4) If the decision of the attorney general under division | 678 |
(H)(3) of this section is that the victim is eligible for | 679 |
catastrophic disability compensation, divisions (E) to (G) of this | 680 |
section apply. | 681 |
Sec. 2743.65. (A) The attorney general shall determine, and | 682 |
the state shall pay, in accordance with this section attorney's | 683 |
fees, commensurate with services rendered, to the attorney | 684 |
representing a claimant under sections 2743.51 to 2743.72 of the | 685 |
Revised Code. The attorney shall submit on an application form an | 686 |
itemized fee bill at the rate of sixty dollars per hour upon | 687 |
receipt of the final decision on the claim. Attorney's fees paid | 688 |
pursuant to this section are subject to the following maximum | 689 |
amounts: | 690 |
(1) A maximum of seven hundred twenty dollars for claims | 691 |
resolved without the filing of an appeal to the court of claims; | 692 |
(2) A maximum of one thousand twenty dollars for claims in | 693 |
which an appeal to the court of claims is filed plus, at the | 694 |
request of an attorney whose main office is not in Franklin | 695 |
county, Delaware county, Licking county, Fairfield county, | 696 |
Pickaway county, Madison county, or Union county, an amount for | 697 |
the attorney's travel time to attend the oral hearing before the | 698 |
court of claims at the rate of thirty dollars per hour; | 699 |
(3) | 700 |
701 | |
702 | |
703 | |
704 | |
705 | |
706 |
| 707 |
supplemental reparations application; | 708 |
| 709 |
denied on the basis of a claimant's or victim's conviction of a | 710 |
felony offense prior to the filing of the claim. If the claimant | 711 |
or victim is convicted of a felony offense during the pendency of | 712 |
the claim, the two hundred dollars maximum does not apply. If the | 713 |
attorney had knowledge of the claimant's or victim's felony | 714 |
conviction prior to the filing of the application for the claim, | 715 |
the attorney general may determine that the filing of the claim | 716 |
was frivolous and may deny attorney's fees; | 717 |
(5) A maximum of two hundred fifty dollars for submitting an | 718 |
application for catastrophic disability compensation if the | 719 |
application results in the issuance of an award; | 720 |
(6) A maximum of two hundred fifty dollars for an application | 721 |
for catastrophic disability compensation in which an | 722 |
administrative hearing is requested and held pursuant to division | 723 |
(H) of section 2743.611 of the Revised Code and the decision of | 724 |
the attorney general is that an award will be issued. | 725 |
(B) The attorney general may determine that an attorney be | 726 |
reimbursed for fees incurred in the creation of a guardianship if | 727 |
the guardianship is required in order for an individual to receive | 728 |
an award of reparations, and those fees shall be reimbursed at a | 729 |
rate of sixty dollars per hour. | 730 |
(C)(1) The attorney general shall forward an application form | 731 |
for attorney's fees to a claimant's attorney before or when the | 732 |
final decision on a claim is rendered. The application form for | 733 |
attorney's fees shall do all of the following: | 734 |
(a) Inform the attorney of the requirements of this section; | 735 |
(b) Require a verification statement comporting with the law | 736 |
prohibiting falsification; | 737 |
(c) Require an itemized fee statement; | 738 |
(d) Require a verification statement that the claimant was | 739 |
served a copy of the completed application form; | 740 |
(e) Include notice that the claimant may oppose the | 741 |
application by notifying the attorney general in writing within | 742 |
ten days. | 743 |
(2) The attorney general shall forward a copy of this section | 744 |
to the attorney with the application form for attorney's fees. The | 745 |
attorney shall file the application form with the attorney | 746 |
general. The attorney general's decision with respect to an award | 747 |
of attorney's fees is final ten days after the attorney general | 748 |
renders the decision and mails a copy of the decision to the | 749 |
attorney at the address provided by the attorney. The attorney may | 750 |
request reconsideration of the decision on grounds that it is | 751 |
insufficient or calculated incorrectly. The attorney general's | 752 |
decision on the request for reconsideration is final. | 753 |
(D) The attorney general shall review all application forms | 754 |
for attorney's fees that are submitted by a claimant's attorney | 755 |
and shall issue an order approving the amount of fees to be paid | 756 |
to the attorney within sixty days after receipt of the application | 757 |
form. | 758 |
(E) No attorney's fees shall be paid for the following: | 759 |
(1) Estate work or representation of a claimant against a | 760 |
collateral source; | 761 |
(2) Duplication of investigative work required to be | 762 |
performed by the attorney general; | 763 |
(3) Performance of unnecessary criminal investigation of the | 764 |
offense; | 765 |
(4) Presenting or appealing an issue that has been repeatedly | 766 |
ruled upon by the highest appellate authority, unless a unique set | 767 |
of facts or unique issue of law exists that distinguishes it; | 768 |
(5) A fee request that is unreasonable, is not commensurate | 769 |
with services rendered, violates the Ohio code of professional | 770 |
responsibility, or is based upon services that are determined to | 771 |
be frivolous. | 772 |
(F)(1) The attorney general may reduce or deny the payment of | 773 |
attorney's fees to an attorney who has filed a frivolous claim. | 774 |
Subject to division (A)(5) of this section, the denial of a claim | 775 |
on the basis of a felony conviction, felony conduct, or | 776 |
contributory misconduct does not constitute a frivolous claim. | 777 |
(2) As used in this section, "frivolous claim" means a claim | 778 |
in which there is clearly no legal grounds under the existing laws | 779 |
of this state to support the filing of a claim on behalf of the | 780 |
claimant or victim. | 781 |
(G) The attorney general may determine that a lesser number | 782 |
of hours should have been required in a given case. Additional | 783 |
reimbursement may be made where the attorney demonstrates to the | 784 |
attorney general that the nature of the particular claim required | 785 |
the expenditure of an amount in excess of that allowed. | 786 |
(H) No attorney shall receive payment under this section for | 787 |
assisting a claimant with an application for an award of | 788 |
reparations under sections 2743.51 to 2743.72 of the Revised Code | 789 |
if that attorney's fees have been allowed as an expense in | 790 |
accordance with division (F)(4) of section 2743.51 of the Revised | 791 |
Code. | 792 |
(I) A contract or other agreement between an attorney and any | 793 |
person that provides for the payment of attorney's fees or other | 794 |
payments in excess of the attorney's fees allowed under this | 795 |
section for representing a claimant under sections 2743.51 to | 796 |
2743.72 of the Revised Code shall be void and unenforceable. | 797 |
(J) Each witness who appears in a hearing on a claim for an | 798 |
award of reparations shall receive compensation in an amount equal | 799 |
to that received by witnesses under section 119.094 of the Revised | 800 |
Code. | 801 |
(K) If a claimant challenges the attorney general's final | 802 |
decision under section 2743.611 of the Revised Code that a victim | 803 |
is not eligible for catastrophic disability compensation by | 804 |
initiating a mandamus action in the court of common pleas and the | 805 |
action results in an award for catastrophic disability | 806 |
compensation being issued to the claimant, the attorney general | 807 |
shall pay the claimant's reasonable attorney's fees and court | 808 |
costs. Any attorney's fees and court costs paid under this | 809 |
division shall be construed as remedial and not punitive. | 810 |
Sec. 2929.01. As used in this chapter: | 811 |
(A)(1) "Alternative residential facility" means, subject to | 812 |
division (A)(2) of this section, any facility other than an | 813 |
offender's home or residence in which an offender is assigned to | 814 |
live and that satisfies all of the following criteria: | 815 |
(a) It provides programs through which the offender may seek | 816 |
or maintain employment or may receive education, training, | 817 |
treatment, or habilitation. | 818 |
(b) It has received the appropriate license or certificate | 819 |
for any specialized education, training, treatment, habilitation, | 820 |
or other service that it provides from the government agency that | 821 |
is responsible for licensing or certifying that type of education, | 822 |
training, treatment, habilitation, or service. | 823 |
(2) "Alternative residential facility" does not include a | 824 |
community-based correctional facility, jail, halfway house, or | 825 |
prison. | 826 |
(B) "Basic probation supervision" means a requirement that | 827 |
the offender maintain contact with a person appointed to supervise | 828 |
the offender in accordance with sanctions imposed by the court or | 829 |
imposed by the parole board pursuant to section 2967.28 of the | 830 |
Revised Code. "Basic probation supervision" includes basic parole | 831 |
supervision and basic post-release control supervision. | 832 |
(C) "Cocaine," "hashish," "L.S.D.," and "unit dose" have the | 833 |
same meanings as in section 2925.01 of the Revised Code. | 834 |
(D) "Community-based correctional facility" means a | 835 |
community-based correctional facility and program or district | 836 |
community-based correctional facility and program developed | 837 |
pursuant to sections 2301.51 to 2301.58 of the Revised Code. | 838 |
(E) "Community control sanction" means a sanction that is not | 839 |
a prison term and that is described in section 2929.15, 2929.16, | 840 |
2929.17, or 2929.18 of the Revised Code or a sanction that is not | 841 |
a jail term and that is described in section 2929.26, 2929.27, or | 842 |
2929.28 of the Revised Code. "Community control sanction" includes | 843 |
probation if the sentence involved was imposed for a felony that | 844 |
was committed prior to July 1, 1996, or if the sentence involved | 845 |
was imposed for a misdemeanor that was committed prior to January | 846 |
1, 2004. | 847 |
(F) "Controlled substance," "marihuana," "schedule I," and | 848 |
"schedule II" have the same meanings as in section 3719.01 of the | 849 |
Revised Code. | 850 |
(G) "Curfew" means a requirement that an offender during a | 851 |
specified period of time be at a designated place. | 852 |
(H) "Day reporting" means a sanction pursuant to which an | 853 |
offender is required each day to report to and leave a center or | 854 |
other approved reporting location at specified times in order to | 855 |
participate in work, education or training, treatment, and other | 856 |
approved programs at the center or outside the center. | 857 |
(I) "Deadly weapon" has the same meaning as in section | 858 |
2923.11 of the Revised Code. | 859 |
(J) "Drug and alcohol use monitoring" means a program under | 860 |
which an offender agrees to submit to random chemical analysis of | 861 |
the offender's blood, breath, or urine to determine whether the | 862 |
offender has ingested any alcohol or other drugs. | 863 |
(K) "Drug treatment program" means any program under which a | 864 |
person undergoes assessment and treatment designed to reduce or | 865 |
completely eliminate the person's physical or emotional reliance | 866 |
upon alcohol, another drug, or alcohol and another drug and under | 867 |
which the person may be required to receive assessment and | 868 |
treatment on an outpatient basis or may be required to reside at a | 869 |
facility other than the person's home or residence while | 870 |
undergoing assessment and treatment. | 871 |
(L) "Economic loss" means any economic detriment suffered by | 872 |
a victim as a direct and proximate result of the commission of an | 873 |
offense and includes any loss of income due to lost time at work | 874 |
because of any injury caused to the victim, and any property loss, | 875 |
medical cost, or funeral expense incurred as a result of the | 876 |
commission of the offense. "Economic loss" does not include | 877 |
non-economic loss or any punitive or exemplary damages. | 878 |
(M) "Education or training" includes study at, or in | 879 |
conjunction with a program offered by, a university, college, or | 880 |
technical college or vocational study and also includes the | 881 |
completion of primary school, secondary school, and literacy | 882 |
curricula or their equivalent. | 883 |
(N) "Firearm" has the same meaning as in section 2923.11 of | 884 |
the Revised Code. | 885 |
(O) "Halfway house" means a facility licensed by the division | 886 |
of parole and community services of the department of | 887 |
rehabilitation and correction pursuant to section 2967.14 of the | 888 |
Revised Code as a suitable facility for the care and treatment of | 889 |
adult offenders. | 890 |
(P) "House arrest" means a period of confinement of an | 891 |
offender that is in the offender's home or in other premises | 892 |
specified by the sentencing court or by the parole board pursuant | 893 |
to section 2967.28 of the Revised Code and during which all of the | 894 |
following apply: | 895 |
(1) The offender is required to remain in the offender's home | 896 |
or other specified premises for the specified period of | 897 |
confinement, except for periods of time during which the offender | 898 |
is at the offender's place of employment or at other premises as | 899 |
authorized by the sentencing court or by the parole board. | 900 |
(2) The offender is required to report periodically to a | 901 |
person designated by the court or parole board. | 902 |
(3) The offender is subject to any other restrictions and | 903 |
requirements that may be imposed by the sentencing court or by the | 904 |
parole board. | 905 |
(Q) "Intensive probation supervision" means a requirement | 906 |
that an offender maintain frequent contact with a person appointed | 907 |
by the court, or by the parole board pursuant to section 2967.28 | 908 |
of the Revised Code, to supervise the offender while the offender | 909 |
is seeking or maintaining necessary employment and participating | 910 |
in training, education, and treatment programs as required in the | 911 |
court's or parole board's order. "Intensive probation supervision" | 912 |
includes intensive parole supervision and intensive post-release | 913 |
control supervision. | 914 |
(R) "Jail" means a jail, workhouse, minimum security jail, or | 915 |
other residential facility used for the confinement of alleged or | 916 |
convicted offenders that is operated by a political subdivision or | 917 |
a combination of political subdivisions of this state. | 918 |
(S) "Jail term" means the term in a jail that a sentencing | 919 |
court imposes or is authorized to impose pursuant to section | 920 |
2929.24 or 2929.25 of the Revised Code or pursuant to any other | 921 |
provision of the Revised Code that authorizes a term in a jail for | 922 |
a misdemeanor conviction. | 923 |
(T) "Mandatory jail term" means the term in a jail that a | 924 |
sentencing court is required to impose pursuant to division (G) of | 925 |
section 1547.99 of the Revised Code, division (E) of section | 926 |
2903.06 or division (D) of section 2903.08 of the Revised Code, | 927 |
division (E) or (G) of section 2929.24 of the Revised Code, | 928 |
division (B) of section 4510.14 of the Revised Code, or division | 929 |
(G) of section 4511.19 of the Revised Code or pursuant to any | 930 |
other provision of the Revised Code that requires a term in a jail | 931 |
for a misdemeanor conviction. | 932 |
(U) "Delinquent child" has the same meaning as in section | 933 |
2152.02 of the Revised Code. | 934 |
(V) "License violation report" means a report that is made by | 935 |
a sentencing court, or by the parole board pursuant to section | 936 |
2967.28 of the Revised Code, to the regulatory or licensing board | 937 |
or agency that issued an offender a professional license or a | 938 |
license or permit to do business in this state and that specifies | 939 |
that the offender has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to an | 940 |
offense that may violate the conditions under which the offender's | 941 |
professional license or license or permit to do business in this | 942 |
state was granted or an offense for which the offender's | 943 |
professional license or license or permit to do business in this | 944 |
state may be revoked or suspended. | 945 |
(W) "Major drug offender" means an offender who is convicted | 946 |
of or pleads guilty to the possession of, sale of, or offer to | 947 |
sell any drug, compound, mixture, preparation, or substance that | 948 |
consists of or contains at least one thousand grams of hashish; at | 949 |
least one hundred grams of cocaine; at least two thousand five | 950 |
hundred unit doses or two hundred fifty grams of heroin; at least | 951 |
five thousand unit doses of L.S.D. or five hundred grams of L.S.D. | 952 |
in a liquid concentrate, liquid extract, or liquid distillate | 953 |
form; at least fifty grams of a controlled substance analog; or at | 954 |
least one hundred times the amount of any other schedule I or II | 955 |
controlled substance other than marihuana that is necessary to | 956 |
commit a felony of the third degree pursuant to section 2925.03, | 957 |
2925.04, 2925.05, or 2925.11 of the Revised Code that is based on | 958 |
the possession of, sale of, or offer to sell the controlled | 959 |
substance. | 960 |
(X) "Mandatory prison term" means any of the following: | 961 |
(1) Subject to division (X)(2) of this section, the term in | 962 |
prison that must be imposed for the offenses or circumstances set | 963 |
forth in divisions (F)(1) to (8) or (F)(12) to (18) of section | 964 |
2929.13 and division (B) of section 2929.14 of the Revised Code. | 965 |
Except as provided in sections 2925.02, 2925.03, 2925.04, 2925.05, | 966 |
and 2925.11 of the Revised Code, unless the maximum or another | 967 |
specific term is required under section 2929.14 or 2929.142 of the | 968 |
Revised Code, a mandatory prison term described in this division | 969 |
may be any prison term authorized for the level of offense. | 970 |
(2) The term of sixty or one hundred twenty days in prison | 971 |
that a sentencing court is required to impose for a third or | 972 |
fourth degree felony OVI offense pursuant to division (G)(2) of | 973 |
section 2929.13 and division (G)(1)(d) or (e) of section 4511.19 | 974 |
of the Revised Code or the term of one, two, three, four, or five | 975 |
years in prison that a sentencing court is required to impose | 976 |
pursuant to division (G)(2) of section 2929.13 of the Revised | 977 |
Code. | 978 |
(3) The term in prison imposed pursuant to division (A) of | 979 |
section 2971.03 of the Revised Code for the offenses and in the | 980 |
circumstances described in division (F)(11) of section 2929.13 of | 981 |
the Revised Code or pursuant to division (B)(1)(a), (b), or (c), | 982 |
(B)(2)(a), (b), or (c), or (B)(3)(a), (b), (c), or (d) of section | 983 |
2971.03 of the Revised Code and that term as modified or | 984 |
terminated pursuant to section 2971.05 of the Revised Code. | 985 |
(Y) "Monitored time" means a period of time during which an | 986 |
offender continues to be under the control of the sentencing court | 987 |
or parole board, subject to no conditions other than leading a | 988 |
law-abiding life. | 989 |
(Z) "Offender" means a person who, in this state, is | 990 |
convicted of or pleads guilty to a felony or a misdemeanor. | 991 |
(AA) "Prison" means a residential facility used for the | 992 |
confinement of convicted felony offenders that is under the | 993 |
control of the department of rehabilitation and correction but | 994 |
does not include a violation sanction center operated under | 995 |
authority of section 2967.141 of the Revised Code. | 996 |
(BB) "Prison term" includes either of the following sanctions | 997 |
for an offender: | 998 |
(1) A stated prison term; | 999 |
(2) A term in a prison shortened by, or with the approval of, | 1000 |
the sentencing court pursuant to section 2929.143, 2929.20, | 1001 |
2967.26, 5120.031, 5120.032, or 5120.073 of the Revised Code. | 1002 |
(CC) "Repeat violent offender" means a person about whom both | 1003 |
of the following apply: | 1004 |
(1) The person is being sentenced for committing or for | 1005 |
complicity in committing any of the following: | 1006 |
(a) Aggravated murder, murder, any felony of the first or | 1007 |
second degree that is an offense of violence, or an attempt to | 1008 |
commit any of these offenses if the attempt is a felony of the | 1009 |
first or second degree; | 1010 |
(b) An offense under an existing or former law of this state, | 1011 |
another state, or the United States that is or was substantially | 1012 |
equivalent to an offense described in division (CC)(1)(a) of this | 1013 |
section. | 1014 |
(2) The person previously was convicted of or pleaded guilty | 1015 |
to an offense described in division (CC)(1)(a) or (b) of this | 1016 |
section. | 1017 |
(DD) "Sanction" means any penalty imposed upon an offender | 1018 |
who is convicted of or pleads guilty to an offense, as punishment | 1019 |
for the offense. "Sanction" includes any sanction imposed pursuant | 1020 |
to any provision of sections 2929.14 to 2929.18 or 2929.24 to | 1021 |
2929.28 of the Revised Code. | 1022 |
(EE) "Sentence" means the sanction or combination of | 1023 |
sanctions imposed by the sentencing court on an offender who is | 1024 |
convicted of or pleads guilty to an offense. | 1025 |
(FF) "Stated prison term" means the prison term, mandatory | 1026 |
prison term, or combination of all prison terms and mandatory | 1027 |
prison terms imposed by the sentencing court pursuant to section | 1028 |
2929.14, 2929.142, or 2971.03 of the Revised Code or under section | 1029 |
2919.25 of the Revised Code. "Stated prison term" includes any | 1030 |
credit received by the offender for time spent in jail awaiting | 1031 |
trial, sentencing, or transfer to prison for the offense and any | 1032 |
time spent under house arrest or house arrest with electronic | 1033 |
monitoring imposed after earning credits pursuant to section | 1034 |
2967.193 of the Revised Code. If an offender is serving a prison | 1035 |
term as a risk reduction sentence under sections 2929.143 and | 1036 |
5120.036 of the Revised Code, "stated prison term" includes any | 1037 |
period of time by which the prison term imposed upon the offender | 1038 |
is shortened by the offender's successful completion of all | 1039 |
assessment and treatment or programming pursuant to those | 1040 |
sections. | 1041 |
(GG) "Victim-offender mediation" means a reconciliation or | 1042 |
mediation program that involves an offender and the victim of the | 1043 |
offense committed by the offender and that includes a meeting in | 1044 |
which the offender and the victim may discuss the offense, discuss | 1045 |
restitution, and consider other sanctions for the offense. | 1046 |
(HH) "Fourth degree felony OVI offense" means a violation of | 1047 |
division (A) of section 4511.19 of the Revised Code that, under | 1048 |
division (G) of that section, is a felony of the fourth degree. | 1049 |
(II) "Mandatory term of local incarceration" means the term | 1050 |
of sixty or one hundred twenty days in a jail, a community-based | 1051 |
correctional facility, a halfway house, or an alternative | 1052 |
residential facility that a sentencing court may impose upon a | 1053 |
person who is convicted of or pleads guilty to a fourth degree | 1054 |
felony OVI offense pursuant to division (G)(1) of section 2929.13 | 1055 |
of the Revised Code and division (G)(1)(d) or (e) of section | 1056 |
4511.19 of the Revised Code. | 1057 |
(JJ) "Designated homicide, assault, or kidnapping offense," | 1058 |
"violent sex offense," "sexual motivation specification," | 1059 |
"sexually violent offense," "sexually violent predator," and | 1060 |
"sexually violent predator specification" have the same meanings | 1061 |
as in section 2971.01 of the Revised Code. | 1062 |
(KK) "Sexually oriented offense," "child-victim oriented | 1063 |
offense," and "tier III sex offender/child-victim offender" have | 1064 |
the same meanings as in section 2950.01 of the Revised Code. | 1065 |
(LL) An offense is "committed in the vicinity of a child" if | 1066 |
the offender commits the offense within thirty feet of or within | 1067 |
the same residential unit as a child who is under eighteen years | 1068 |
of age, regardless of whether the offender knows the age of the | 1069 |
child or whether the offender knows the offense is being committed | 1070 |
within thirty feet of or within the same residential unit as the | 1071 |
child and regardless of whether the child actually views the | 1072 |
commission of the offense. | 1073 |
(MM) "Family or household member" has the same meaning as in | 1074 |
section 2919.25 of the Revised Code. | 1075 |
(NN) "Motor vehicle" and "manufactured home" have the same | 1076 |
meanings as in section 4501.01 of the Revised Code. | 1077 |
(OO) "Detention" and "detention facility" have the same | 1078 |
meanings as in section 2921.01 of the Revised Code. | 1079 |
(PP) "Third degree felony OVI offense" means a violation of | 1080 |
division (A) of section 4511.19 of the Revised Code that, under | 1081 |
division (G) of that section, is a felony of the third degree. | 1082 |
(QQ) "Random drug testing" has the same meaning as in section | 1083 |
5120.63 of the Revised Code. | 1084 |
(RR) "Felony sex offense" has the same meaning as in section | 1085 |
2967.28 of the Revised Code. | 1086 |
(SS) "Body armor" has the same meaning as in section | 1087 |
2941.1411 of the Revised Code. | 1088 |
(TT) "Electronic monitoring" means monitoring through the use | 1089 |
of an electronic monitoring device. | 1090 |
(UU) "Electronic monitoring device" means any of the | 1091 |
following: | 1092 |
(1) Any device that can be operated by electrical or battery | 1093 |
power and that conforms with all of the following: | 1094 |
(a) The device has a transmitter that can be attached to a | 1095 |
person, that will transmit a specified signal to a receiver of the | 1096 |
type described in division (UU)(1)(b) of this section if the | 1097 |
transmitter is removed from the person, turned off, or altered in | 1098 |
any manner without prior court approval in relation to electronic | 1099 |
monitoring or without prior approval of the department of | 1100 |
rehabilitation and correction in relation to the use of an | 1101 |
electronic monitoring device for an inmate on transitional control | 1102 |
or otherwise is tampered with, that can transmit continuously and | 1103 |
periodically a signal to that receiver when the person is within a | 1104 |
specified distance from the receiver, and that can transmit an | 1105 |
appropriate signal to that receiver if the person to whom it is | 1106 |
attached travels a specified distance from that receiver. | 1107 |
(b) The device has a receiver that can receive continuously | 1108 |
the signals transmitted by a transmitter of the type described in | 1109 |
division (UU)(1)(a) of this section, can transmit continuously | 1110 |
those signals by a wireless or landline telephone connection to a | 1111 |
central monitoring computer of the type described in division | 1112 |
(UU)(1)(c) of this section, and can transmit continuously an | 1113 |
appropriate signal to that central monitoring computer if the | 1114 |
device has been turned off or altered without prior court approval | 1115 |
or otherwise tampered with. The device is designed specifically | 1116 |
for use in electronic monitoring, is not a converted wireless | 1117 |
phone or another tracking device that is clearly not designed for | 1118 |
electronic monitoring, and provides a means of text-based or voice | 1119 |
communication with the person. | 1120 |
(c) The device has a central monitoring computer that can | 1121 |
receive continuously the signals transmitted by a wireless or | 1122 |
landline telephone connection by a receiver of the type described | 1123 |
in division (UU)(1)(b) of this section and can monitor | 1124 |
continuously the person to whom an electronic monitoring device of | 1125 |
the type described in division (UU)(1)(a) of this section is | 1126 |
attached. | 1127 |
(2) Any device that is not a device of the type described in | 1128 |
division (UU)(1) of this section and that conforms with all of the | 1129 |
following: | 1130 |
(a) The device includes a transmitter and receiver that can | 1131 |
monitor and determine the location of a subject person at any | 1132 |
time, or at a designated point in time, through the use of a | 1133 |
central monitoring computer or through other electronic means. | 1134 |
(b) The device includes a transmitter and receiver that can | 1135 |
determine at any time, or at a designated point in time, through | 1136 |
the use of a central monitoring computer or other electronic means | 1137 |
the fact that the transmitter is turned off or altered in any | 1138 |
manner without prior approval of the court in relation to the | 1139 |
electronic monitoring or without prior approval of the department | 1140 |
of rehabilitation and correction in relation to the use of an | 1141 |
electronic monitoring device for an inmate on transitional control | 1142 |
or otherwise is tampered with. | 1143 |
(3) Any type of technology that can adequately track or | 1144 |
determine the location of a subject person at any time and that is | 1145 |
approved by the director of rehabilitation and correction, | 1146 |
including, but not limited to, any satellite technology, voice | 1147 |
tracking system, or retinal scanning system that is so approved. | 1148 |
(VV) "Non-economic loss" means nonpecuniary harm suffered by | 1149 |
a victim of an offense as a result of or related to the commission | 1150 |
of the offense, including, but not limited to, pain and suffering; | 1151 |
loss of society, consortium, companionship, care, assistance, | 1152 |
attention, protection, advice, guidance, counsel, instruction, | 1153 |
training, or education; mental anguish; and any other intangible | 1154 |
loss. | 1155 |
(WW) "Prosecutor" has the same meaning as in section 2935.01 | 1156 |
of the Revised Code. | 1157 |
(XX) "Continuous alcohol monitoring" means the ability to | 1158 |
automatically test and periodically transmit alcohol consumption | 1159 |
levels and tamper attempts at least every hour, regardless of the | 1160 |
location of the person who is being monitored. | 1161 |
(YY) A person is "adjudicated a sexually violent predator" if | 1162 |
the person is convicted of or pleads guilty to a violent sex | 1163 |
offense and also is convicted of or pleads guilty to a sexually | 1164 |
violent predator specification that was included in the | 1165 |
indictment, count in the indictment, or information charging that | 1166 |
violent sex offense or if the person is convicted of or pleads | 1167 |
guilty to a designated homicide, assault, or kidnapping offense | 1168 |
and also is convicted of or pleads guilty to both a sexual | 1169 |
motivation specification and a sexually violent predator | 1170 |
specification that were included in the indictment, count in the | 1171 |
indictment, or information charging that designated homicide, | 1172 |
assault, or kidnapping offense. | 1173 |
(ZZ) An offense is "committed in proximity to a school" if | 1174 |
the offender commits the offense in a school safety zone or within | 1175 |
five hundred feet of any school building or the boundaries of any | 1176 |
school premises, regardless of whether the offender knows the | 1177 |
offense is being committed in a school safety zone or within five | 1178 |
hundred feet of any school building or the boundaries of any | 1179 |
school premises. | 1180 |
(AAA) "Human trafficking" means a scheme or plan to which all | 1181 |
of the following apply: | 1182 |
(1) Its object is to subject a victim or victims to | 1183 |
involuntary servitude, as defined in section 2905.31 of the | 1184 |
Revised Code, to compel a victim or victims to engage in sexual | 1185 |
activity for hire, to engage in a performance that is obscene, | 1186 |
sexually oriented, or nudity oriented, or to be a model or | 1187 |
participant in the production of material that is obscene, | 1188 |
sexually oriented, or nudity oriented. | 1189 |
(2) It involves at least two felony offenses, whether or not | 1190 |
there has been a prior conviction for any of the felony offenses, | 1191 |
to which all of the following apply: | 1192 |
(a) Each of the felony offenses is a violation of section | 1193 |
2905.01, 2905.02, 2905.32, 2907.21, 2907.22, or 2923.32, division | 1194 |
(A)(1) or (2) of section 2907.323, or division (B)(1), (2), (3), | 1195 |
(4), or (5) of section 2919.22 of the Revised Code or is a | 1196 |
violation of a law of any state other than this state that is | 1197 |
substantially similar to any of the sections or divisions of the | 1198 |
Revised Code identified in this division. | 1199 |
(b) At least one of the felony offenses was committed in this | 1200 |
state. | 1201 |
(c) The felony offenses are related to the same scheme or | 1202 |
plan and are not isolated instances. | 1203 |
(BBB) "Material," "nudity," "obscene," "performance," and | 1204 |
"sexual activity" have the same meanings as in section 2907.01 of | 1205 |
the Revised Code. | 1206 |
(CCC) "Material that is obscene, sexually oriented, or nudity | 1207 |
oriented" means any material that is obscene, that shows a person | 1208 |
participating or engaging in sexual activity, masturbation, or | 1209 |
bestiality, or that shows a person in a state of nudity. | 1210 |
(DDD) "Performance that is obscene, sexually oriented, or | 1211 |
nudity oriented" means any performance that is obscene, that shows | 1212 |
a person participating or engaging in sexual activity, | 1213 |
masturbation, or bestiality, or that shows a person in a state of | 1214 |
nudity. | 1215 |
(EEE) "Permanent disabling harm" means serious physical harm | 1216 |
that results in permanent injury to the intellectual, physical, or | 1217 |
sensory functions and that permanently and substantially impairs a | 1218 |
person's ability to meet one or more of the ordinary demands of | 1219 |
life, including the functions of caring for one's self, performing | 1220 |
manual tasks, walking, seeing, hearing, speaking, breathing, | 1221 |
learning, and working. | 1222 |
Sec. 2929.13. (A) Except as provided in division (E), (F), | 1223 |
or (G) of this section and unless a specific sanction is required | 1224 |
to be imposed or is precluded from being imposed pursuant to law, | 1225 |
a court that imposes a sentence upon an offender for a felony may | 1226 |
impose any sanction or combination of sanctions on the offender | 1227 |
that are provided in sections 2929.14 to 2929.18 of the Revised | 1228 |
Code. | 1229 |
If the offender is eligible to be sentenced to community | 1230 |
control sanctions, the court shall consider the appropriateness of | 1231 |
imposing a financial sanction pursuant to section 2929.18 of the | 1232 |
Revised Code or a sanction of community service pursuant to | 1233 |
section 2929.17 of the Revised Code as the sole sanction for the | 1234 |
offense. Except as otherwise provided in this division, if the | 1235 |
court is required to impose a mandatory prison term for the | 1236 |
offense for which sentence is being imposed, the court also shall | 1237 |
impose any financial sanction pursuant to section 2929.18 of the | 1238 |
Revised Code that is required for the offense and may impose any | 1239 |
other financial sanction pursuant to that section but may not | 1240 |
impose any additional sanction or combination of sanctions under | 1241 |
section 2929.16 or 2929.17 of the Revised Code. | 1242 |
If the offender is being sentenced for a fourth degree felony | 1243 |
OVI offense or for a third degree felony OVI offense, in addition | 1244 |
to the mandatory term of local incarceration or the mandatory | 1245 |
prison term required for the offense by division (G)(1) or (2) of | 1246 |
this section, the court shall impose upon the offender a mandatory | 1247 |
fine in accordance with division (B)(3) of section 2929.18 of the | 1248 |
Revised Code and may impose whichever of the following is | 1249 |
applicable: | 1250 |
(1) For a fourth degree felony OVI offense for which sentence | 1251 |
is imposed under division (G)(1) of this section, an additional | 1252 |
community control sanction or combination of community control | 1253 |
sanctions under section 2929.16 or 2929.17 of the Revised Code. If | 1254 |
the court imposes upon the offender a community control sanction | 1255 |
and the offender violates any condition of the community control | 1256 |
sanction, the court may take any action prescribed in division (B) | 1257 |
of section 2929.15 of the Revised Code relative to the offender, | 1258 |
including imposing a prison term on the offender pursuant to that | 1259 |
division. | 1260 |
(2) For a third or fourth degree felony OVI offense for which | 1261 |
sentence is imposed under division (G)(2) of this section, an | 1262 |
additional prison term as described in division (B)(4) of section | 1263 |
2929.14 of the Revised Code or a community control sanction as | 1264 |
described in division (G)(2) of this section. | 1265 |
(B)(1)(a) Except as provided in division (B)(1)(b) of this | 1266 |
section, if an offender is convicted of or pleads guilty to a | 1267 |
felony of the fourth or fifth degree that is not an offense of | 1268 |
violence or that is a qualifying assault offense, the court shall | 1269 |
sentence the offender to a community control sanction of at least | 1270 |
one year's duration if all of the following apply: | 1271 |
(i) The offender previously has not been convicted of or | 1272 |
pleaded guilty to a felony offense. | 1273 |
(ii) The most serious charge against the offender at the time | 1274 |
of sentencing is a felony of the fourth or fifth degree. | 1275 |
(iii) If the court made a request of the department of | 1276 |
rehabilitation and correction pursuant to division (B)(1)(c) of | 1277 |
this section, the department, within the forty-five-day period | 1278 |
specified in that division, provided the court with the names of, | 1279 |
contact information for, and program details of one or more | 1280 |
community control sanctions of at least one year's duration that | 1281 |
are available for persons sentenced by the court. | 1282 |
(iv) The offender previously has not been convicted of or | 1283 |
pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor offense of violence that the | 1284 |
offender committed within two years prior to the offense for which | 1285 |
sentence is being imposed. | 1286 |
(b) The court has discretion to impose a prison term upon an | 1287 |
offender who is convicted of or pleads guilty to a felony of the | 1288 |
fourth or fifth degree that is not an offense of violence or that | 1289 |
is a qualifying assault offense if any of the following apply: | 1290 |
(i) The offender committed the offense while having a firearm | 1291 |
on or about the offender's person or under the offender's control. | 1292 |
(ii) If the offense is a qualifying assault offense, the | 1293 |
offender caused serious physical harm to another person while | 1294 |
committing the offense, and, if the offense is not a qualifying | 1295 |
assault offense, the offender caused physical harm to another | 1296 |
person while committing the offense. | 1297 |
(iii) The offender violated a term of the conditions of bond | 1298 |
as set by the court. | 1299 |
(iv) The court made a request of the department of | 1300 |
rehabilitation and correction pursuant to division (B)(1)(c) of | 1301 |
this section, and the department, within the forty-five-day period | 1302 |
specified in that division, did not provide the court with the | 1303 |
name of, contact information for, and program details of any | 1304 |
community control sanction of at least one year's duration that is | 1305 |
available for persons sentenced by the court. | 1306 |
(v) The offense is a sex offense that is a fourth or fifth | 1307 |
degree felony violation of any provision of Chapter 2907. of the | 1308 |
Revised Code. | 1309 |
(vi) In committing the offense, the offender attempted to | 1310 |
cause or made an actual threat of physical harm to a person with a | 1311 |
deadly weapon. | 1312 |
(vii) In committing the offense, the offender attempted to | 1313 |
cause or made an actual threat of physical harm to a person, and | 1314 |
the offender previously was convicted of an offense that caused | 1315 |
physical harm to a person. | 1316 |
(viii) The offender held a public office or position of | 1317 |
trust, and the offense related to that office or position; the | 1318 |
offender's position obliged the offender to prevent the offense or | 1319 |
to bring those committing it to justice; or the offender's | 1320 |
professional reputation or position facilitated the offense or was | 1321 |
likely to influence the future conduct of others. | 1322 |
(ix) The offender committed the offense for hire or as part | 1323 |
of an organized criminal activity. | 1324 |
(x) The offender at the time of the offense was serving, or | 1325 |
the offender previously had served, a prison term. | 1326 |
(xi) The offender committed the offense while under a | 1327 |
community control sanction, while on probation, or while released | 1328 |
from custody on a bond or personal recognizance. | 1329 |
(c) If a court that is sentencing an offender who is | 1330 |
convicted of or pleads guilty to a felony of the fourth or fifth | 1331 |
degree that is not an offense of violence or that is a qualifying | 1332 |
assault offense believes that no community control sanctions are | 1333 |
available for its use that, if imposed on the offender, will | 1334 |
adequately fulfill the overriding principles and purposes of | 1335 |
sentencing, the court shall contact the department of | 1336 |
rehabilitation and correction and ask the department to provide | 1337 |
the court with the names of, contact information for, and program | 1338 |
details of one or more community control sanctions of at least one | 1339 |
year's duration that are available for persons sentenced by the | 1340 |
court. Not later than forty-five days after receipt of a request | 1341 |
from a court under this division, the department shall provide the | 1342 |
court with the names of, contact information for, and program | 1343 |
details of one or more community control sanctions of at least one | 1344 |
year's duration that are available for persons sentenced by the | 1345 |
court, if any. Upon making a request under this division that | 1346 |
relates to a particular offender, a court shall defer sentencing | 1347 |
of that offender until it receives from the department the names | 1348 |
of, contact information for, and program details of one or more | 1349 |
community control sanctions of at least one year's duration that | 1350 |
are available for persons sentenced by the court or for forty-five | 1351 |
days, whichever is the earlier. | 1352 |
If the department provides the court with the names of, | 1353 |
contact information for, and program details of one or more | 1354 |
community control sanctions of at least one year's duration that | 1355 |
are available for persons sentenced by the court within the | 1356 |
forty-five-day period specified in this division, the court shall | 1357 |
impose upon the offender a community control sanction under | 1358 |
division (B)(1)(a) of this section, except that the court may | 1359 |
impose a prison term under division (B)(1)(b) of this section if a | 1360 |
factor described in division (B)(1)(b)(i) or (ii) of this section | 1361 |
applies. If the department does not provide the court with the | 1362 |
names of, contact information for, and program details of one or | 1363 |
more community control sanctions of at least one year's duration | 1364 |
that are available for persons sentenced by the court within the | 1365 |
forty-five-day period specified in this division, the court may | 1366 |
impose upon the offender a prison term under division | 1367 |
(B)(1)(b)(iv) of this section. | 1368 |
(d) A sentencing court may impose an additional penalty under | 1369 |
division (B) of section 2929.15 of the Revised Code upon an | 1370 |
offender sentenced to a community control sanction under division | 1371 |
(B)(1)(a) of this section if the offender violates the conditions | 1372 |
of the community control sanction, violates a law, or leaves the | 1373 |
state without the permission of the court or the offender's | 1374 |
probation officer. | 1375 |
(2) If division (B)(1) of this section does not apply, except | 1376 |
as provided in division (E), (F), or (G) of this section, in | 1377 |
determining whether to impose a prison term as a sanction for a | 1378 |
felony of the fourth or fifth degree, the sentencing court shall | 1379 |
comply with the purposes and principles of sentencing under | 1380 |
section 2929.11 of the Revised Code and with section 2929.12 of | 1381 |
the Revised Code. | 1382 |
(C) Except as provided in division (D), (E), (F), or (G) of | 1383 |
this section, in determining whether to impose a prison term as a | 1384 |
sanction for a felony of the third degree or a felony drug offense | 1385 |
that is a violation of a provision of Chapter 2925. of the Revised | 1386 |
Code and that is specified as being subject to this division for | 1387 |
purposes of sentencing, the sentencing court shall comply with the | 1388 |
purposes and principles of sentencing under section 2929.11 of the | 1389 |
Revised Code and with section 2929.12 of the Revised Code. | 1390 |
(D)(1) Except as provided in division (E) or (F) of this | 1391 |
section, for a felony of the first or second degree, for a felony | 1392 |
drug offense that is a violation of any provision of Chapter | 1393 |
2925., 3719., or 4729. of the Revised Code for which a presumption | 1394 |
in favor of a prison term is specified as being applicable, and | 1395 |
for a violation of division (A)(4) or (B) of section 2907.05 of | 1396 |
the Revised Code for which a presumption in favor of a prison term | 1397 |
is specified as being applicable, it is presumed that a prison | 1398 |
term is necessary in order to comply with the purposes and | 1399 |
principles of sentencing under section 2929.11 of the Revised | 1400 |
Code. Division (D)(2) of this section does not apply to a | 1401 |
presumption established under this division for a violation of | 1402 |
division (A)(4) of section 2907.05 of the Revised Code. | 1403 |
(2) Notwithstanding the presumption established under | 1404 |
division (D)(1) of this section for the offenses listed in that | 1405 |
division other than a violation of division (A)(4) or (B) of | 1406 |
section 2907.05 of the Revised Code, the sentencing court may | 1407 |
impose a community control sanction or a combination of community | 1408 |
control sanctions instead of a prison term on an offender for a | 1409 |
felony of the first or second degree or for a felony drug offense | 1410 |
that is a violation of any provision of Chapter 2925., 3719., or | 1411 |
4729. of the Revised Code for which a presumption in favor of a | 1412 |
prison term is specified as being applicable if it makes both of | 1413 |
the following findings: | 1414 |
(a) A community control sanction or a combination of | 1415 |
community control sanctions would adequately punish the offender | 1416 |
and protect the public from future crime, because the applicable | 1417 |
factors under section 2929.12 of the Revised Code indicating a | 1418 |
lesser likelihood of recidivism outweigh the applicable factors | 1419 |
under that section indicating a greater likelihood of recidivism. | 1420 |
(b) A community control sanction or a combination of | 1421 |
community control sanctions would not demean the seriousness of | 1422 |
the offense, because one or more factors under section 2929.12 of | 1423 |
the Revised Code that indicate that the offender's conduct was | 1424 |
less serious than conduct normally constituting the offense are | 1425 |
applicable, and they outweigh the applicable factors under that | 1426 |
section that indicate that the offender's conduct was more serious | 1427 |
than conduct normally constituting the offense. | 1428 |
(E)(1) Except as provided in division (F) of this section, | 1429 |
for any drug offense that is a violation of any provision of | 1430 |
Chapter 2925. of the Revised Code and that is a felony of the | 1431 |
third, fourth, or fifth degree, the applicability of a presumption | 1432 |
under division (D) of this section in favor of a prison term or of | 1433 |
division (B) or (C) of this section in determining whether to | 1434 |
impose a prison term for the offense shall be determined as | 1435 |
specified in section 2925.02, 2925.03, 2925.04, 2925.05, 2925.06, | 1436 |
2925.11, 2925.13, 2925.22, 2925.23, 2925.36, or 2925.37 of the | 1437 |
Revised Code, whichever is applicable regarding the violation. | 1438 |
(2) If an offender who was convicted of or pleaded guilty to | 1439 |
a felony violates the conditions of a community control sanction | 1440 |
imposed for the offense solely by reason of producing positive | 1441 |
results on a drug test, the court, as punishment for the violation | 1442 |
of the sanction, shall not order that the offender be imprisoned | 1443 |
unless the court determines on the record either of the following: | 1444 |
(a) The offender had been ordered as a sanction for the | 1445 |
felony to participate in a drug treatment program, in a drug | 1446 |
education program, or in narcotics anonymous or a similar program, | 1447 |
and the offender continued to use illegal drugs after a reasonable | 1448 |
period of participation in the program. | 1449 |
(b) The imprisonment of the offender for the violation is | 1450 |
consistent with the purposes and principles of sentencing set | 1451 |
forth in section 2929.11 of the Revised Code. | 1452 |
(3) A court that sentences an offender for a drug abuse | 1453 |
offense that is a felony of the third, fourth, or fifth degree may | 1454 |
require that the offender be assessed by a properly credentialed | 1455 |
professional within a specified period of time. The court shall | 1456 |
require the professional to file a written assessment of the | 1457 |
offender with the court. If the offender is eligible for a | 1458 |
community control sanction and after considering the written | 1459 |
assessment, the court may impose a community control sanction that | 1460 |
includes treatment and recovery support services authorized by | 1461 |
section 3793.02 of the Revised Code. If the court imposes | 1462 |
treatment and recovery support services as a community control | 1463 |
sanction, the court shall direct the level and type of treatment | 1464 |
and recovery support services after considering the assessment and | 1465 |
recommendation of treatment and recovery support services | 1466 |
providers. | 1467 |
(F) Notwithstanding divisions (A) to (E) of this section, the | 1468 |
court shall impose a prison term or terms under sections 2929.02 | 1469 |
to 2929.06, section 2929.14, section 2929.142, or section 2971.03 | 1470 |
of the Revised Code and except as specifically provided in section | 1471 |
2929.20, divisions (C) to (I) of section 2967.19, or section | 1472 |
2967.191 of the Revised Code or when parole is authorized for the | 1473 |
offense under section 2967.13 of the Revised Code shall not reduce | 1474 |
the term or terms pursuant to section 2929.20, section 2967.19, | 1475 |
section 2967.193, or any other provision of Chapter 2967. or | 1476 |
Chapter 5120. of the Revised Code for any of the following | 1477 |
offenses: | 1478 |
(1) Aggravated murder when death is not imposed or murder; | 1479 |
(2) Any rape, regardless of whether force was involved and | 1480 |
regardless of the age of the victim, or an attempt to commit rape | 1481 |
if, had the offender completed the rape that was attempted, the | 1482 |
offender would have been guilty of a violation of division | 1483 |
(A)(1)(b) of section 2907.02 of the Revised Code and would be | 1484 |
sentenced under section 2971.03 of the Revised Code; | 1485 |
(3) Gross sexual imposition or sexual battery, if the victim | 1486 |
is less than thirteen years of age and if any of the following | 1487 |
applies: | 1488 |
(a) Regarding gross sexual imposition, the offender | 1489 |
previously was convicted of or pleaded guilty to rape, the former | 1490 |
offense of felonious sexual penetration, gross sexual imposition, | 1491 |
or sexual battery, and the victim of the previous offense was less | 1492 |
than thirteen years of age; | 1493 |
(b) Regarding gross sexual imposition, the offense was | 1494 |
committed on or after August 3, 2006, and evidence other than the | 1495 |
testimony of the victim was admitted in the case corroborating the | 1496 |
violation. | 1497 |
(c) Regarding sexual battery, either of the following | 1498 |
applies: | 1499 |
(i) The offense was committed prior to August 3, 2006, the | 1500 |
offender previously was convicted of or pleaded guilty to rape, | 1501 |
the former offense of felonious sexual penetration, or sexual | 1502 |
battery, and the victim of the previous offense was less than | 1503 |
thirteen years of age. | 1504 |
(ii) The offense was committed on or after August 3, 2006. | 1505 |
(4) A felony violation of section 2903.04, 2903.06, 2903.08, | 1506 |
2903.11, 2903.12, 2903.13, 2905.32, or 2907.07 of the Revised Code | 1507 |
if the section requires the imposition of a prison term; | 1508 |
(5) A first, second, or third degree felony drug offense for | 1509 |
which section 2925.02, 2925.03, 2925.04, 2925.05, 2925.06, | 1510 |
2925.11, 2925.13, 2925.22, 2925.23, 2925.36, 2925.37, 3719.99, or | 1511 |
4729.99 of the Revised Code, whichever is applicable regarding the | 1512 |
violation, requires the imposition of a mandatory prison term; | 1513 |
(6) Any offense that is a first or second degree felony and | 1514 |
that is not set forth in division (F)(1), (2), (3), or (4) of this | 1515 |
section, if the offender previously was convicted of or pleaded | 1516 |
guilty to aggravated murder, murder, any first or second degree | 1517 |
felony, or an offense under an existing or former law of this | 1518 |
state, another state, or the United States that is or was | 1519 |
substantially equivalent to one of those offenses; | 1520 |
(7) Any offense that is a third degree felony and either is a | 1521 |
violation of section 2903.04 of the Revised Code or an attempt to | 1522 |
commit a felony of the second degree that is an offense of | 1523 |
violence and involved an attempt to cause serious physical harm to | 1524 |
a person or that resulted in serious physical harm to a person if | 1525 |
the offender previously was convicted of or pleaded guilty to any | 1526 |
of the following offenses: | 1527 |
(a) Aggravated murder, murder, involuntary manslaughter, | 1528 |
rape, felonious sexual penetration as it existed under section | 1529 |
2907.12 of the Revised Code prior to September 3, 1996, a felony | 1530 |
of the first or second degree that resulted in the death of a | 1531 |
person or in physical harm to a person, or complicity in or an | 1532 |
attempt to commit any of those offenses; | 1533 |
(b) An offense under an existing or former law of this state, | 1534 |
another state, or the United States that is or was substantially | 1535 |
equivalent to an offense listed in division (F)(7)(a) of this | 1536 |
section that resulted in the death of a person or in physical harm | 1537 |
to a person. | 1538 |
(8) Any offense, other than a violation of section 2923.12 of | 1539 |
the Revised Code, that is a felony, if the offender had a firearm | 1540 |
on or about the offender's person or under the offender's control | 1541 |
while committing the felony, with respect to a portion of the | 1542 |
sentence imposed pursuant to division (B)(1)(a) of section 2929.14 | 1543 |
of the Revised Code for having the firearm; | 1544 |
(9) Any offense of violence that is a felony, if the offender | 1545 |
wore or carried body armor while committing the felony offense of | 1546 |
violence, with respect to the portion of the sentence imposed | 1547 |
pursuant to division (B)(1)(d) of section 2929.14 of the Revised | 1548 |
Code for wearing or carrying the body armor; | 1549 |
(10) Corrupt activity in violation of section 2923.32 of the | 1550 |
Revised Code when the most serious offense in the pattern of | 1551 |
corrupt activity that is the basis of the offense is a felony of | 1552 |
the first degree; | 1553 |
(11) Any violent sex offense or designated homicide, assault, | 1554 |
or kidnapping offense if, in relation to that offense, the | 1555 |
offender is adjudicated a sexually violent predator; | 1556 |
(12) A violation of division (A)(1) or (2) of section 2921.36 | 1557 |
of the Revised Code, or a violation of division (C) of that | 1558 |
section involving an item listed in division (A)(1) or (2) of that | 1559 |
section, if the offender is an officer or employee of the | 1560 |
department of rehabilitation and correction; | 1561 |
(13) A violation of division (A)(1) or (2) of section 2903.06 | 1562 |
of the Revised Code if the victim of the offense is a peace | 1563 |
officer, as defined in section 2935.01 of the Revised Code, or an | 1564 |
investigator of the bureau of criminal identification and | 1565 |
investigation, as defined in section 2903.11 of the Revised Code, | 1566 |
with respect to the portion of the sentence imposed pursuant to | 1567 |
division (B)(5) of section 2929.14 of the Revised Code; | 1568 |
(14) A violation of division (A)(1) or (2) of section 2903.06 | 1569 |
of the Revised Code if the offender has been convicted of or | 1570 |
pleaded guilty to three or more violations of division (A) or (B) | 1571 |
of section 4511.19 of the Revised Code or an equivalent offense, | 1572 |
as defined in section 2941.1415 of the Revised Code, or three or | 1573 |
more violations of any combination of those divisions and | 1574 |
offenses, with respect to the portion of the sentence imposed | 1575 |
pursuant to division (B)(6) of section 2929.14 of the Revised | 1576 |
Code; | 1577 |
(15) Kidnapping, in the circumstances specified in section | 1578 |
2971.03 of the Revised Code and when no other provision of | 1579 |
division (F) of this section applies; | 1580 |
(16) Kidnapping, abduction, compelling prostitution, | 1581 |
promoting prostitution, engaging in a pattern of corrupt activity, | 1582 |
illegal use of a minor in a nudity-oriented material or | 1583 |
performance in violation of division (A)(1) or (2) of section | 1584 |
2907.323 of the Revised Code, or endangering children in violation | 1585 |
of division (B)(1), (2), (3), (4), or (5) of section 2919.22 of | 1586 |
the Revised Code, if the offender is convicted of or pleads guilty | 1587 |
to a specification as described in section 2941.1422 of the | 1588 |
Revised Code that was included in the indictment, count in the | 1589 |
indictment, or information charging the offense; | 1590 |
(17) A felony violation of division (A) or (B) of section | 1591 |
2919.25 of the Revised Code if division (D)(3), (4), or (5) of | 1592 |
that section, and division (D)(6) of that section, require the | 1593 |
imposition of a prison term; | 1594 |
(18) A felony violation of section 2903.11, 2903.12, or | 1595 |
2903.13 of the Revised Code, if the victim of the offense was a | 1596 |
woman that the offender knew was pregnant at the time of the | 1597 |
violation, with respect to a portion of the sentence imposed | 1598 |
pursuant to division (B)(8) of section 2929.14 of the Revised | 1599 |
Code; | 1600 |
(19) Any offense of violence that is a felony, if the | 1601 |
offender is convicted of or pleads guilty to a specification as | 1602 |
described in section 2941.1424 of the Revised Code that was | 1603 |
included in the indictment, count in the indictment, or | 1604 |
information charging the offense. | 1605 |
(G) Notwithstanding divisions (A) to (E) of this section, if | 1606 |
an offender is being sentenced for a fourth degree felony OVI | 1607 |
offense or for a third degree felony OVI offense, the court shall | 1608 |
impose upon the offender a mandatory term of local incarceration | 1609 |
or a mandatory prison term in accordance with the following: | 1610 |
(1) If the offender is being sentenced for a fourth degree | 1611 |
felony OVI offense and if the offender has not been convicted of | 1612 |
and has not pleaded guilty to a specification of the type | 1613 |
described in section 2941.1413 of the Revised Code, the court may | 1614 |
impose upon the offender a mandatory term of local incarceration | 1615 |
of sixty days or one hundred twenty days as specified in division | 1616 |
(G)(1)(d) of section 4511.19 of the Revised Code. The court shall | 1617 |
not reduce the term pursuant to section 2929.20, 2967.193, or any | 1618 |
other provision of the Revised Code. The court that imposes a | 1619 |
mandatory term of local incarceration under this division shall | 1620 |
specify whether the term is to be served in a jail, a | 1621 |
community-based correctional facility, a halfway house, or an | 1622 |
alternative residential facility, and the offender shall serve the | 1623 |
term in the type of facility specified by the court. A mandatory | 1624 |
term of local incarceration imposed under division (G)(1) of this | 1625 |
section is not subject to any other Revised Code provision that | 1626 |
pertains to a prison term except as provided in division (A)(1) of | 1627 |
this section. | 1628 |
(2) If the offender is being sentenced for a third degree | 1629 |
felony OVI offense, or if the offender is being sentenced for a | 1630 |
fourth degree felony OVI offense and the court does not impose a | 1631 |
mandatory term of local incarceration under division (G)(1) of | 1632 |
this section, the court shall impose upon the offender a mandatory | 1633 |
prison term of one, two, three, four, or five years if the | 1634 |
offender also is convicted of or also pleads guilty to a | 1635 |
specification of the type described in section 2941.1413 of the | 1636 |
Revised Code or shall impose upon the offender a mandatory prison | 1637 |
term of sixty days or one hundred twenty days as specified in | 1638 |
division (G)(1)(d) or (e) of section 4511.19 of the Revised Code | 1639 |
if the offender has not been convicted of and has not pleaded | 1640 |
guilty to a specification of that type. Subject to divisions (C) | 1641 |
to (I) of section 2967.19 of the Revised Code, the court shall not | 1642 |
reduce the term pursuant to section 2929.20, 2967.19, 2967.193, or | 1643 |
any other provision of the Revised Code. The offender shall serve | 1644 |
the one-, two-, three-, four-, or five-year mandatory prison term | 1645 |
consecutively to and prior to the prison term imposed for the | 1646 |
underlying offense and consecutively to any other mandatory prison | 1647 |
term imposed in relation to the offense. In no case shall an | 1648 |
offender who once has been sentenced to a mandatory term of local | 1649 |
incarceration pursuant to division (G)(1) of this section for a | 1650 |
fourth degree felony OVI offense be sentenced to another mandatory | 1651 |
term of local incarceration under that division for any violation | 1652 |
of division (A) of section 4511.19 of the Revised Code. In | 1653 |
addition to the mandatory prison term described in division (G)(2) | 1654 |
of this section, the court may sentence the offender to a | 1655 |
community control sanction under section 2929.16 or 2929.17 of the | 1656 |
Revised Code, but the offender shall serve the prison term prior | 1657 |
to serving the community control sanction. The department of | 1658 |
rehabilitation and correction may place an offender sentenced to a | 1659 |
mandatory prison term under this division in an intensive program | 1660 |
prison established pursuant to section 5120.033 of the Revised | 1661 |
Code if the department gave the sentencing judge prior notice of | 1662 |
its intent to place the offender in an intensive program prison | 1663 |
established under that section and if the judge did not notify the | 1664 |
department that the judge disapproved the placement. Upon the | 1665 |
establishment of the initial intensive program prison pursuant to | 1666 |
section 5120.033 of the Revised Code that is privately operated | 1667 |
and managed by a contractor pursuant to a contract entered into | 1668 |
under section 9.06 of the Revised Code, both of the following | 1669 |
apply: | 1670 |
(a) The department of rehabilitation and correction shall | 1671 |
make a reasonable effort to ensure that a sufficient number of | 1672 |
offenders sentenced to a mandatory prison term under this division | 1673 |
are placed in the privately operated and managed prison so that | 1674 |
the privately operated and managed prison has full occupancy. | 1675 |
(b) Unless the privately operated and managed prison has full | 1676 |
occupancy, the department of rehabilitation and correction shall | 1677 |
not place any offender sentenced to a mandatory prison term under | 1678 |
this division in any intensive program prison established pursuant | 1679 |
to section 5120.033 of the Revised Code other than the privately | 1680 |
operated and managed prison. | 1681 |
(H) If an offender is being sentenced for a sexually oriented | 1682 |
offense or child-victim oriented offense that is a felony | 1683 |
committed on or after January 1, 1997, the judge shall require the | 1684 |
offender to submit to a DNA specimen collection procedure pursuant | 1685 |
to section 2901.07 of the Revised Code. | 1686 |
(I) If an offender is being sentenced for a sexually oriented | 1687 |
offense or a child-victim oriented offense committed on or after | 1688 |
January 1, 1997, the judge shall include in the sentence a summary | 1689 |
of the offender's duties imposed under sections 2950.04, 2950.041, | 1690 |
2950.05, and 2950.06 of the Revised Code and the duration of the | 1691 |
duties. The judge shall inform the offender, at the time of | 1692 |
sentencing, of those duties and of their duration. If required | 1693 |
under division (A)(2) of section 2950.03 of the Revised Code, the | 1694 |
judge shall perform the duties specified in that section, or, if | 1695 |
required under division (A)(6) of section 2950.03 of the Revised | 1696 |
Code, the judge shall perform the duties specified in that | 1697 |
division. | 1698 |
(J)(1) Except as provided in division (J)(2) of this section, | 1699 |
when considering sentencing factors under this section in relation | 1700 |
to an offender who is convicted of or pleads guilty to an attempt | 1701 |
to commit an offense in violation of section 2923.02 of the | 1702 |
Revised Code, the sentencing court shall consider the factors | 1703 |
applicable to the felony category of the violation of section | 1704 |
2923.02 of the Revised Code instead of the factors applicable to | 1705 |
the felony category of the offense attempted. | 1706 |
(2) When considering sentencing factors under this section in | 1707 |
relation to an offender who is convicted of or pleads guilty to an | 1708 |
attempt to commit a drug abuse offense for which the penalty is | 1709 |
determined by the amount or number of unit doses of the controlled | 1710 |
substance involved in the drug abuse offense, the sentencing court | 1711 |
shall consider the factors applicable to the felony category that | 1712 |
the drug abuse offense attempted would be if that drug abuse | 1713 |
offense had been committed and had involved an amount or number of | 1714 |
unit doses of the controlled substance that is within the next | 1715 |
lower range of controlled substance amounts than was involved in | 1716 |
the attempt. | 1717 |
(K) As used in this section: | 1718 |
(1) "Drug abuse offense" has the same meaning as in section | 1719 |
2925.01 of the Revised Code. | 1720 |
(2) "Qualifying assault offense" means a violation of section | 1721 |
2903.13 of the Revised Code for which the penalty provision in | 1722 |
division (C)(8)(b) or (C)(9)(b) of that section applies. | 1723 |
(L) At the time of sentencing an offender for any sexually | 1724 |
oriented offense, if the offender is a tier III sex | 1725 |
offender/child-victim offender relative to that offense and the | 1726 |
offender does not serve a prison term or jail term, the court may | 1727 |
require that the offender be monitored by means of a global | 1728 |
positioning device. If the court requires such monitoring, the | 1729 |
cost of monitoring shall be borne by the offender. If the offender | 1730 |
is indigent, the cost of compliance shall be paid by the crime | 1731 |
victims reparations fund. | 1732 |
Sec. 2929.14. (A) Except as provided in division (B)(1), | 1733 |
(B)(2), (B)(3), (B)(4), (B)(5), (B)(6), (B)(7), (B)(8), (B)(9), | 1734 |
(E), (G), (H), or (J) of this section or in division (D)(6) of | 1735 |
section 2919.25 of the Revised Code and except in relation to an | 1736 |
offense for which a sentence of death or life imprisonment is to | 1737 |
be imposed, if the court imposing a sentence upon an offender for | 1738 |
a felony elects or is required to impose a prison term on the | 1739 |
offender pursuant to this chapter, the court shall impose a | 1740 |
definite prison term that shall be one of the following: | 1741 |
(1) For a felony of the first degree, the prison term shall | 1742 |
be three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, or eleven | 1743 |
years. | 1744 |
(2) For a felony of the second degree, the prison term shall | 1745 |
be two, three, four, five, six, seven, or eight years. | 1746 |
(3)(a) For a felony of the third degree that is a violation | 1747 |
of section 2903.06, 2903.08, 2907.03, 2907.04, or 2907.05 of the | 1748 |
Revised Code or that is a violation of section 2911.02 or 2911.12 | 1749 |
of the Revised Code if the offender previously has been convicted | 1750 |
of or pleaded guilty in two or more separate proceedings to two or | 1751 |
more violations of section 2911.01, 2911.02, 2911.11, or 2911.12 | 1752 |
of the Revised Code, the prison term shall be twelve, eighteen, | 1753 |
twenty-four, thirty, thirty-six, forty-two, forty-eight, | 1754 |
fifty-four, or sixty months. | 1755 |
(b) For a felony of the third degree that is not an offense | 1756 |
for which division (A)(3)(a) of this section applies, the prison | 1757 |
term shall be nine, twelve, eighteen, twenty-four, thirty, or | 1758 |
thirty-six months. | 1759 |
(4) For a felony of the fourth degree, the prison term shall | 1760 |
be six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, | 1761 |
fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, or eighteen months. | 1762 |
(5) For a felony of the fifth degree, the prison term shall | 1763 |
be six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, or twelve months. | 1764 |
(B)(1)(a) Except as provided in division (B)(1)(e) of this | 1765 |
section, if an offender who is convicted of or pleads guilty to a | 1766 |
felony also is convicted of or pleads guilty to a specification of | 1767 |
the type described in section 2941.141, 2941.144, or 2941.145 of | 1768 |
the Revised Code, the court shall impose on the offender one of | 1769 |
the following prison terms: | 1770 |
(i) A prison term of six years if the specification is of the | 1771 |
type described in section 2941.144 of the Revised Code that | 1772 |
charges the offender with having a firearm that is an automatic | 1773 |
firearm or that was equipped with a firearm muffler or silencer on | 1774 |
or about the offender's person or under the offender's control | 1775 |
while committing the felony; | 1776 |
(ii) A prison term of three years if the specification is of | 1777 |
the type described in section 2941.145 of the Revised Code that | 1778 |
charges the offender with having a firearm on or about the | 1779 |
offender's person or under the offender's control while committing | 1780 |
the offense and displaying the firearm, brandishing the firearm, | 1781 |
indicating that the offender possessed the firearm, or using it to | 1782 |
facilitate the offense; | 1783 |
(iii) A prison term of one year if the specification is of | 1784 |
the type described in section 2941.141 of the Revised Code that | 1785 |
charges the offender with having a firearm on or about the | 1786 |
offender's person or under the offender's control while committing | 1787 |
the felony. | 1788 |
(b) If a court imposes a prison term on an offender under | 1789 |
division (B)(1)(a) of this section, the prison term shall not be | 1790 |
reduced pursuant to section 2967.19, section 2929.20, section | 1791 |
2967.193, or any other provision of Chapter 2967. or Chapter 5120. | 1792 |
of the Revised Code. Except as provided in division (B)(1)(g) of | 1793 |
this section, a court shall not impose more than one prison term | 1794 |
on an offender under division (B)(1)(a) of this section for | 1795 |
felonies committed as part of the same act or transaction. | 1796 |
(c) Except as provided in division (B)(1)(e) of this section, | 1797 |
if an offender who is convicted of or pleads guilty to a violation | 1798 |
of section 2923.161 of the Revised Code or to a felony that | 1799 |
includes, as an essential element, purposely or knowingly causing | 1800 |
or attempting to cause the death of or physical harm to another, | 1801 |
also is convicted of or pleads guilty to a specification of the | 1802 |
type described in section 2941.146 of the Revised Code that | 1803 |
charges the offender with committing the offense by discharging a | 1804 |
firearm from a motor vehicle other than a manufactured home, the | 1805 |
court, after imposing a prison term on the offender for the | 1806 |
violation of section 2923.161 of the Revised Code or for the other | 1807 |
felony offense under division (A), (B)(2), or (B)(3) of this | 1808 |
section, shall impose an additional prison term of five years upon | 1809 |
the offender that shall not be reduced pursuant to section | 1810 |
2929.20, section 2967.19, section 2967.193, or any other provision | 1811 |
of Chapter 2967. or Chapter 5120. of the Revised Code. A court | 1812 |
shall not impose more than one additional prison term on an | 1813 |
offender under division (B)(1)(c) of this section for felonies | 1814 |
committed as part of the same act or transaction. If a court | 1815 |
imposes an additional prison term on an offender under division | 1816 |
(B)(1)(c) of this section relative to an offense, the court also | 1817 |
shall impose a prison term under division (B)(1)(a) of this | 1818 |
section relative to the same offense, provided the criteria | 1819 |
specified in that division for imposing an additional prison term | 1820 |
are satisfied relative to the offender and the offense. | 1821 |
(d) If an offender who is convicted of or pleads guilty to an | 1822 |
offense of violence that is a felony also is convicted of or | 1823 |
pleads guilty to a specification of the type described in section | 1824 |
2941.1411 of the Revised Code that charges the offender with | 1825 |
wearing or carrying body armor while committing the felony offense | 1826 |
of violence, the court shall impose on the offender a prison term | 1827 |
of two years. The prison term so imposed, subject to divisions (C) | 1828 |
to (I) of section 2967.19 of the Revised Code, shall not be | 1829 |
reduced pursuant to section 2929.20, section 2967.19, section | 1830 |
2967.193, or any other provision of Chapter 2967. or Chapter 5120. | 1831 |
of the Revised Code. A court shall not impose more than one prison | 1832 |
term on an offender under division (B)(1)(d) of this section for | 1833 |
felonies committed as part of the same act or transaction. If a | 1834 |
court imposes an additional prison term under division (B)(1)(a) | 1835 |
or (c) of this section, the court is not precluded from imposing | 1836 |
an additional prison term under division (B)(1)(d) of this | 1837 |
section. | 1838 |
(e) The court shall not impose any of the prison terms | 1839 |
described in division (B)(1)(a) of this section or any of the | 1840 |
additional prison terms described in division (B)(1)(c) of this | 1841 |
section upon an offender for a violation of section 2923.12 or | 1842 |
2923.123 of the Revised Code. The court shall not impose any of | 1843 |
the prison terms described in division (B)(1)(a) or (b) of this | 1844 |
section upon an offender for a violation of section 2923.122 that | 1845 |
involves a deadly weapon that is a firearm other than a dangerous | 1846 |
ordnance, section 2923.16, or section 2923.121 of the Revised | 1847 |
Code. The court shall not impose any of the prison terms described | 1848 |
in division (B)(1)(a) of this section or any of the additional | 1849 |
prison terms described in division (B)(1)(c) of this section upon | 1850 |
an offender for a violation of section 2923.13 of the Revised Code | 1851 |
unless all of the following apply: | 1852 |
(i) The offender previously has been convicted of aggravated | 1853 |
murder, murder, or any felony of the first or second degree. | 1854 |
(ii) Less than five years have passed since the offender was | 1855 |
released from prison or post-release control, whichever is later, | 1856 |
for the prior offense. | 1857 |
(f) If an offender is convicted of or pleads guilty to a | 1858 |
felony that includes, as an essential element, causing or | 1859 |
attempting to cause the death of or physical harm to another and | 1860 |
also is convicted of or pleads guilty to a specification of the | 1861 |
type described in section 2941.1412 of the Revised Code that | 1862 |
charges the offender with committing the offense by discharging a | 1863 |
firearm at a peace officer as defined in section 2935.01 of the | 1864 |
Revised Code or a corrections officer, as defined in section | 1865 |
2941.1412 of the Revised Code, the court, after imposing a prison | 1866 |
term on the offender for the felony offense under division (A), | 1867 |
(B)(2), or (B)(3) of this section, shall impose an additional | 1868 |
prison term of seven years upon the offender that shall not be | 1869 |
reduced pursuant to section 2929.20, section 2967.19, section | 1870 |
2967.193, or any other provision of Chapter 2967. or Chapter 5120. | 1871 |
of the Revised Code. If an offender is convicted of or pleads | 1872 |
guilty to two or more felonies that include, as an essential | 1873 |
element, causing or attempting to cause the death or physical harm | 1874 |
to another and also is convicted of or pleads guilty to a | 1875 |
specification of the type described under division (B)(1)(f) of | 1876 |
this section in connection with two or more of the felonies of | 1877 |
which the offender is convicted or to which the offender pleads | 1878 |
guilty, the sentencing court shall impose on the offender the | 1879 |
prison term specified under division (B)(1)(f) of this section for | 1880 |
each of two of the specifications of which the offender is | 1881 |
convicted or to which the offender pleads guilty and, in its | 1882 |
discretion, also may impose on the offender the prison term | 1883 |
specified under that division for any or all of the remaining | 1884 |
specifications. If a court imposes an additional prison term on an | 1885 |
offender under division (B)(1)(f) of this section relative to an | 1886 |
offense, the court shall not impose a prison term under division | 1887 |
(B)(1)(a) or (c) of this section relative to the same offense. | 1888 |
(g) If an offender is convicted of or pleads guilty to two or | 1889 |
more felonies, if one or more of those felonies are aggravated | 1890 |
murder, murder, attempted aggravated murder, attempted murder, | 1891 |
aggravated robbery, felonious assault, or rape, and if the | 1892 |
offender is convicted of or pleads guilty to a specification of | 1893 |
the type described under division (B)(1)(a) of this section in | 1894 |
connection with two or more of the felonies, the sentencing court | 1895 |
shall impose on the offender the prison term specified under | 1896 |
division (B)(1)(a) of this section for each of the two most | 1897 |
serious specifications of which the offender is convicted or to | 1898 |
which the offender pleads guilty and, in its discretion, also may | 1899 |
impose on the offender the prison term specified under that | 1900 |
division for any or all of the remaining specifications. | 1901 |
(2)(a) If division (B)(2)(b) of this section does not apply, | 1902 |
the court may impose on an offender, in addition to the longest | 1903 |
prison term authorized or required for the offense, an additional | 1904 |
definite prison term of one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, | 1905 |
eight, nine, or ten years if all of the following criteria are | 1906 |
met: | 1907 |
(i) The offender is convicted of or pleads guilty to a | 1908 |
specification of the type described in section 2941.149 of the | 1909 |
Revised Code that the offender is a repeat violent offender. | 1910 |
(ii) The offense of which the offender currently is convicted | 1911 |
or to which the offender currently pleads guilty is aggravated | 1912 |
murder and the court does not impose a sentence of death or life | 1913 |
imprisonment without parole, murder, terrorism and the court does | 1914 |
not impose a sentence of life imprisonment without parole, any | 1915 |
felony of the first degree that is an offense of violence and the | 1916 |
court does not impose a sentence of life imprisonment without | 1917 |
parole, or any felony of the second degree that is an offense of | 1918 |
violence and the trier of fact finds that the offense involved an | 1919 |
attempt to cause or a threat to cause serious physical harm to a | 1920 |
person or resulted in serious physical harm to a person. | 1921 |
(iii) The court imposes the longest prison term for the | 1922 |
offense that is not life imprisonment without parole. | 1923 |
(iv) The court finds that the prison terms imposed pursuant | 1924 |
to division (B)(2)(a)(iii) of this section and, if applicable, | 1925 |
division (B)(1) or (3) of this section are inadequate to punish | 1926 |
the offender and protect the public from future crime, because the | 1927 |
applicable factors under section 2929.12 of the Revised Code | 1928 |
indicating a greater likelihood of recidivism outweigh the | 1929 |
applicable factors under that section indicating a lesser | 1930 |
likelihood of recidivism. | 1931 |
(v) The court finds that the prison terms imposed pursuant to | 1932 |
division (B)(2)(a)(iii) of this section and, if applicable, | 1933 |
division (B)(1) or (3) of this section are demeaning to the | 1934 |
seriousness of the offense, because one or more of the factors | 1935 |
under section 2929.12 of the Revised Code indicating that the | 1936 |
offender's conduct is more serious than conduct normally | 1937 |
constituting the offense are present, and they outweigh the | 1938 |
applicable factors under that section indicating that the | 1939 |
offender's conduct is less serious than conduct normally | 1940 |
constituting the offense. | 1941 |
(b) The court shall impose on an offender the longest prison | 1942 |
term authorized or required for the offense and shall impose on | 1943 |
the offender an additional definite prison term of one, two, | 1944 |
three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, or ten years if all of | 1945 |
the following criteria are met: | 1946 |
(i) The offender is convicted of or pleads guilty to a | 1947 |
specification of the type described in section 2941.149 of the | 1948 |
Revised Code that the offender is a repeat violent offender. | 1949 |
(ii) The offender within the preceding twenty years has been | 1950 |
convicted of or pleaded guilty to three or more offenses described | 1951 |
in division (CC)(1) of section 2929.01 of the Revised Code, | 1952 |
including all offenses described in that division of which the | 1953 |
offender is convicted or to which the offender pleads guilty in | 1954 |
the current prosecution and all offenses described in that | 1955 |
division of which the offender previously has been convicted or to | 1956 |
which the offender previously pleaded guilty, whether prosecuted | 1957 |
together or separately. | 1958 |
(iii) The offense or offenses of which the offender currently | 1959 |
is convicted or to which the offender currently pleads guilty is | 1960 |
aggravated murder and the court does not impose a sentence of | 1961 |
death or life imprisonment without parole, murder, terrorism and | 1962 |
the court does not impose a sentence of life imprisonment without | 1963 |
parole, any felony of the first degree that is an offense of | 1964 |
violence and the court does not impose a sentence of life | 1965 |
imprisonment without parole, or any felony of the second degree | 1966 |
that is an offense of violence and the trier of fact finds that | 1967 |
the offense involved an attempt to cause or a threat to cause | 1968 |
serious physical harm to a person or resulted in serious physical | 1969 |
harm to a person. | 1970 |
(c) For purposes of division (B)(2)(b) of this section, two | 1971 |
or more offenses committed at the same time or as part of the same | 1972 |
act or event shall be considered one offense, and that one offense | 1973 |
shall be the offense with the greatest penalty. | 1974 |
(d) A sentence imposed under division (B)(2)(a) or (b) of | 1975 |
this section shall not be reduced pursuant to section 2929.20, | 1976 |
section 2967.19, or section 2967.193, or any other provision of | 1977 |
Chapter 2967. or Chapter 5120. of the Revised Code. The offender | 1978 |
shall serve an additional prison term imposed under this section | 1979 |
consecutively to and prior to the prison term imposed for the | 1980 |
underlying offense. | 1981 |
(e) When imposing a sentence pursuant to division (B)(2)(a) | 1982 |
or (b) of this section, the court shall state its findings | 1983 |
explaining the imposed sentence. | 1984 |
(3) Except when an offender commits a violation of section | 1985 |
2903.01 or 2907.02 of the Revised Code and the penalty imposed for | 1986 |
the violation is life imprisonment or commits a violation of | 1987 |
section 2903.02 of the Revised Code, if the offender commits a | 1988 |
violation of section 2925.03 or 2925.11 of the Revised Code and | 1989 |
that section classifies the offender as a major drug offender, if | 1990 |
the offender commits a felony violation of section 2925.02, | 1991 |
2925.04, 2925.05, 2925.36, 3719.07, 3719.08, 3719.16, 3719.161, | 1992 |
4729.37, or 4729.61, division (C) or (D) of section 3719.172, | 1993 |
division (C) of section 4729.51, or division (J) of section | 1994 |
4729.54 of the Revised Code that includes the sale, offer to sell, | 1995 |
or possession of a schedule I or II controlled substance, with the | 1996 |
exception of marihuana, and the court imposing sentence upon the | 1997 |
offender finds that the offender is guilty of a specification of | 1998 |
the type described in section 2941.1410 of the Revised Code | 1999 |
charging that the offender is a major drug offender, if the court | 2000 |
imposing sentence upon an offender for a felony finds that the | 2001 |
offender is guilty of corrupt activity with the most serious | 2002 |
offense in the pattern of corrupt activity being a felony of the | 2003 |
first degree, or if the offender is guilty of an attempted | 2004 |
violation of section 2907.02 of the Revised Code and, had the | 2005 |
offender completed the violation of section 2907.02 of the Revised | 2006 |
Code that was attempted, the offender would have been subject to a | 2007 |
sentence of life imprisonment or life imprisonment without parole | 2008 |
for the violation of section 2907.02 of the Revised Code, the | 2009 |
court shall impose upon the offender for the felony violation a | 2010 |
mandatory prison term of the maximum prison term prescribed for a | 2011 |
felony of the first degree that, subject to divisions (C) to (I) | 2012 |
of section 2967.19 of the Revised Code, cannot be reduced pursuant | 2013 |
to section 2929.20, section 2967.19, or any other provision of | 2014 |
Chapter 2967. or 5120. of the Revised Code. | 2015 |
(4) If the offender is being sentenced for a third or fourth | 2016 |
degree felony OVI offense under division (G)(2) of section 2929.13 | 2017 |
of the Revised Code, the sentencing court shall impose upon the | 2018 |
offender a mandatory prison term in accordance with that division. | 2019 |
In addition to the mandatory prison term, if the offender is being | 2020 |
sentenced for a fourth degree felony OVI offense, the court, | 2021 |
notwithstanding division (A)(4) of this section, may sentence the | 2022 |
offender to a definite prison term of not less than six months and | 2023 |
not more than thirty months, and if the offender is being | 2024 |
sentenced for a third degree felony OVI offense, the sentencing | 2025 |
court may sentence the offender to an additional prison term of | 2026 |
any duration specified in division (A)(3) of this section. In | 2027 |
either case, the additional prison term imposed shall be reduced | 2028 |
by the sixty or one hundred twenty days imposed upon the offender | 2029 |
as the mandatory prison term. The total of the additional prison | 2030 |
term imposed under division (B)(4) of this section plus the sixty | 2031 |
or one hundred twenty days imposed as the mandatory prison term | 2032 |
shall equal a definite term in the range of six months to thirty | 2033 |
months for a fourth degree felony OVI offense and shall equal one | 2034 |
of the authorized prison terms specified in division (A)(3) of | 2035 |
this section for a third degree felony OVI offense. If the court | 2036 |
imposes an additional prison term under division (B)(4) of this | 2037 |
section, the offender shall serve the additional prison term after | 2038 |
the offender has served the mandatory prison term required for the | 2039 |
offense. In addition to the mandatory prison term or mandatory and | 2040 |
additional prison term imposed as described in division (B)(4) of | 2041 |
this section, the court also may sentence the offender to a | 2042 |
community control sanction under section 2929.16 or 2929.17 of the | 2043 |
Revised Code, but the offender shall serve all of the prison terms | 2044 |
so imposed prior to serving the community control sanction. | 2045 |
If the offender is being sentenced for a fourth degree felony | 2046 |
OVI offense under division (G)(1) of section 2929.13 of the | 2047 |
Revised Code and the court imposes a mandatory term of local | 2048 |
incarceration, the court may impose a prison term as described in | 2049 |
division (A)(1) of that section. | 2050 |
(5) If an offender is convicted of or pleads guilty to a | 2051 |
violation of division (A)(1) or (2) of section 2903.06 of the | 2052 |
Revised Code and also is convicted of or pleads guilty to a | 2053 |
specification of the type described in section 2941.1414 of the | 2054 |
Revised Code that charges that the victim of the offense is a | 2055 |
peace officer, as defined in section 2935.01 of the Revised Code, | 2056 |
or an investigator of the bureau of criminal identification and | 2057 |
investigation, as defined in section 2903.11 of the Revised Code, | 2058 |
the court shall impose on the offender a prison term of five | 2059 |
years. If a court imposes a prison term on an offender under | 2060 |
division (B)(5) of this section, the prison term, subject to | 2061 |
divisions (C) to (I) of section 2967.19 of the Revised Code, shall | 2062 |
not be reduced pursuant to section 2929.20, section 2967.19, | 2063 |
section 2967.193, or any other provision of Chapter 2967. or | 2064 |
Chapter 5120. of the Revised Code. A court shall not impose more | 2065 |
than one prison term on an offender under division (B)(5) of this | 2066 |
section for felonies committed as part of the same act. | 2067 |
(6) If an offender is convicted of or pleads guilty to a | 2068 |
violation of division (A)(1) or (2) of section 2903.06 of the | 2069 |
Revised Code and also is convicted of or pleads guilty to a | 2070 |
specification of the type described in section 2941.1415 of the | 2071 |
Revised Code that charges that the offender previously has been | 2072 |
convicted of or pleaded guilty to three or more violations of | 2073 |
division (A) or (B) of section 4511.19 of the Revised Code or an | 2074 |
equivalent offense, as defined in section 2941.1415 of the Revised | 2075 |
Code, or three or more violations of any combination of those | 2076 |
divisions and offenses, the court shall impose on the offender a | 2077 |
prison term of three years. If a court imposes a prison term on an | 2078 |
offender under division (B)(6) of this section, the prison term, | 2079 |
subject to divisions (C) to (I) of section 2967.19 of the Revised | 2080 |
Code, shall not be reduced pursuant to section 2929.20, section | 2081 |
2967.19, section 2967.193, or any other provision of Chapter 2967. | 2082 |
or Chapter 5120. of the Revised Code. A court shall not impose | 2083 |
more than one prison term on an offender under division (B)(6) of | 2084 |
this section for felonies committed as part of the same act. | 2085 |
(7)(a) If an offender is convicted of or pleads guilty to a | 2086 |
felony violation of section 2905.01, 2905.02, 2907.21, 2907.22, or | 2087 |
2923.32, division (A)(1) or (2) of section 2907.323, or division | 2088 |
(B)(1), (2), (3), (4), or (5) of section 2919.22 of the Revised | 2089 |
Code and also is convicted of or pleads guilty to a specification | 2090 |
of the type described in section 2941.1422 of the Revised Code | 2091 |
that charges that the offender knowingly committed the offense in | 2092 |
furtherance of human trafficking, the court shall impose on the | 2093 |
offender a mandatory prison term that is one of the following: | 2094 |
(i) If the offense is a felony of the first degree, a | 2095 |
definite prison term of not less than five years and not greater | 2096 |
than ten years; | 2097 |
(ii) If the offense is a felony of the second or third | 2098 |
degree, a definite prison term of not less than three years and | 2099 |
not greater than the maximum prison term allowed for the offense | 2100 |
by division (A) of section 2929.14 of the Revised Code; | 2101 |
(iii) If the offense is a felony of the fourth or fifth | 2102 |
degree, a definite prison term that is the maximum prison term | 2103 |
allowed for the offense by division (A) of section 2929.14 of the | 2104 |
Revised Code. | 2105 |
(b) Subject to divisions (C) to (I) of section 2967.19 of the | 2106 |
Revised Code, the prison term imposed under division (B)(7)(a) of | 2107 |
this section shall not be reduced pursuant to section 2929.20, | 2108 |
section 2967.19, section 2967.193, or any other provision of | 2109 |
Chapter 2967. of the Revised Code. A court shall not impose more | 2110 |
than one prison term on an offender under division (B)(7)(a) of | 2111 |
this section for felonies committed as part of the same act, | 2112 |
scheme, or plan. | 2113 |
(8) If an offender is convicted of or pleads guilty to a | 2114 |
felony violation of section 2903.11, 2903.12, or 2903.13 of the | 2115 |
Revised Code and also is convicted of or pleads guilty to a | 2116 |
specification of the type described in section 2941.1423 of the | 2117 |
Revised Code that charges that the victim of the violation was a | 2118 |
woman whom the offender knew was pregnant at the time of the | 2119 |
violation, notwithstanding the range of prison terms prescribed in | 2120 |
division (A) of this section for felonies of the same degree as | 2121 |
the violation, the court shall impose on the offender a mandatory | 2122 |
prison term that is either a definite prison term of six months or | 2123 |
one of the prison terms prescribed in section 2929.14 of the | 2124 |
Revised Code for felonies of the same degree as the violation. | 2125 |
(9) If an offender is convicted of or pleads guilty to a | 2126 |
felony offense of violence and also is convicted of or pleads | 2127 |
guilty to a specification of the type described in section | 2128 |
2941.1424 of the Revised Code that charges that the victim of the | 2129 |
offense suffered permanent disabling harm as a result of the | 2130 |
offense, the court shall impose upon the offender an additional | 2131 |
definite prison term of five, six, seven, eight, nine, or ten | 2132 |
years. A prison term imposed upon an offender under division | 2133 |
(B)(9) of this section shall not be reduced pursuant to section | 2134 |
2929.20, section 2967.193, or any other provision of Chapter 2967. | 2135 |
or Chapter 5120. of the Revised Code. | 2136 |
(C)(1)(a) Subject to division (C)(1)(b) of this section, if a | 2137 |
mandatory prison term is imposed upon an offender pursuant to | 2138 |
division (B)(1)(a) of this section for having a firearm on or | 2139 |
about the offender's person or under the offender's control while | 2140 |
committing a felony, if a mandatory prison term is imposed upon an | 2141 |
offender pursuant to division (B)(1)(c) of this section for | 2142 |
committing a felony specified in that division by discharging a | 2143 |
firearm from a motor vehicle, or if both types of mandatory prison | 2144 |
terms are imposed, the offender shall serve any mandatory prison | 2145 |
term imposed under either division consecutively to any other | 2146 |
mandatory prison term imposed under either division or under | 2147 |
division (B)(1)(d) of this section, consecutively to and prior to | 2148 |
any prison term imposed for the underlying felony pursuant to | 2149 |
division (A), (B)(2), or (B)(3) of this section or any other | 2150 |
section of the Revised Code, and consecutively to any other prison | 2151 |
term or mandatory prison term previously or subsequently imposed | 2152 |
upon the offender. | 2153 |
(b) If a mandatory prison term is imposed upon an offender | 2154 |
pursuant to division (B)(1)(d) of this section for wearing or | 2155 |
carrying body armor while committing an offense of violence that | 2156 |
is a felony, the offender shall serve the mandatory term so | 2157 |
imposed consecutively to any other mandatory prison term imposed | 2158 |
under that division or under division (B)(1)(a) or (c) of this | 2159 |
section, consecutively to and prior to any prison term imposed for | 2160 |
the underlying felony under division (A), (B)(2), or (B)(3) of | 2161 |
this section or any other section of the Revised Code, and | 2162 |
consecutively to any other prison term or mandatory prison term | 2163 |
previously or subsequently imposed upon the offender. | 2164 |
(c) If a mandatory prison term is imposed upon an offender | 2165 |
pursuant to division (B)(1)(f) of this section, the offender shall | 2166 |
serve the mandatory prison term so imposed consecutively to and | 2167 |
prior to any prison term imposed for the underlying felony under | 2168 |
division (A), (B)(2), or (B)(3) of this section or any other | 2169 |
section of the Revised Code, and consecutively to any other prison | 2170 |
term or mandatory prison term previously or subsequently imposed | 2171 |
upon the offender. | 2172 |
(d) If a mandatory prison term is imposed upon an offender | 2173 |
pursuant to division (B)(7) or (8) of this section, the offender | 2174 |
shall serve the mandatory prison term so imposed consecutively to | 2175 |
any other mandatory prison term imposed under that division or | 2176 |
under any other provision of law and consecutively to any other | 2177 |
prison term or mandatory prison term previously or subsequently | 2178 |
imposed upon the offender. | 2179 |
(2) If an offender who is an inmate in a jail, prison, or | 2180 |
other residential detention facility violates section 2917.02, | 2181 |
2917.03, or 2921.35 of the Revised Code or division (A)(1) or (2) | 2182 |
of section 2921.34 of the Revised Code, if an offender who is | 2183 |
under detention at a detention facility commits a felony violation | 2184 |
of section 2923.131 of the Revised Code, or if an offender who is | 2185 |
an inmate in a jail, prison, or other residential detention | 2186 |
facility or is under detention at a detention facility commits | 2187 |
another felony while the offender is an escapee in violation of | 2188 |
division (A)(1) or (2) of section 2921.34 of the Revised Code, any | 2189 |
prison term imposed upon the offender for one of those violations | 2190 |
shall be served by the offender consecutively to the prison term | 2191 |
or term of imprisonment the offender was serving when the offender | 2192 |
committed that offense and to any other prison term previously or | 2193 |
subsequently imposed upon the offender. | 2194 |
(3) If a prison term is imposed for a violation of division | 2195 |
(B) of section 2911.01 of the Revised Code, a violation of | 2196 |
division (A) of section 2913.02 of the Revised Code in which the | 2197 |
stolen property is a firearm or dangerous ordnance, or a felony | 2198 |
violation of division (B) of section 2921.331 of the Revised Code, | 2199 |
the offender shall serve that prison term consecutively to any | 2200 |
other prison term or mandatory prison term previously or | 2201 |
subsequently imposed upon the offender. | 2202 |
(4) If multiple prison terms are imposed on an offender for | 2203 |
convictions of multiple offenses, the court may require the | 2204 |
offender to serve the prison terms consecutively if the court | 2205 |
finds that the consecutive service is necessary to protect the | 2206 |
public from future crime or to punish the offender and that | 2207 |
consecutive sentences are not disproportionate to the seriousness | 2208 |
of the offender's conduct and to the danger the offender poses to | 2209 |
the public, and if the court also finds any of the following: | 2210 |
(a) The offender committed one or more of the multiple | 2211 |
offenses while the offender was awaiting trial or sentencing, was | 2212 |
under a sanction imposed pursuant to section 2929.16, 2929.17, or | 2213 |
2929.18 of the Revised Code, or was under post-release control for | 2214 |
a prior offense. | 2215 |
(b) At least two of the multiple offenses were committed as | 2216 |
part of one or more courses of conduct, and the harm caused by two | 2217 |
or more of the multiple offenses so committed was so great or | 2218 |
unusual that no single prison term for any of the offenses | 2219 |
committed as part of any of the courses of conduct adequately | 2220 |
reflects the seriousness of the offender's conduct. | 2221 |
(c) The offender's history of criminal conduct demonstrates | 2222 |
that consecutive sentences are necessary to protect the public | 2223 |
from future crime by the offender. | 2224 |
(5) If a mandatory prison term is imposed upon an offender | 2225 |
pursuant to division (B)(5) or (6) of this section, the offender | 2226 |
shall serve the mandatory prison term consecutively to and prior | 2227 |
to any prison term imposed for the underlying violation of | 2228 |
division (A)(1) or (2) of section 2903.06 of the Revised Code | 2229 |
pursuant to division (A) of this section or section 2929.142 of | 2230 |
the Revised Code. If a mandatory prison term is imposed upon an | 2231 |
offender pursuant to division (B)(5) of this section, and if a | 2232 |
mandatory prison term also is imposed upon the offender pursuant | 2233 |
to division (B)(6) of this section in relation to the same | 2234 |
violation, the offender shall serve the mandatory prison term | 2235 |
imposed pursuant to division (B)(5) of this section consecutively | 2236 |
to and prior to the mandatory prison term imposed pursuant to | 2237 |
division (B)(6) of this section and consecutively to and prior to | 2238 |
any prison term imposed for the underlying violation of division | 2239 |
(A)(1) or (2) of section 2903.06 of the Revised Code pursuant to | 2240 |
division (A) of this section or section 2929.142 of the Revised | 2241 |
Code. | 2242 |
(6) If a mandatory prison term is imposed upon an offender | 2243 |
pursuant to division (B)(9) of this section, the offender shall | 2244 |
serve that mandatory prison term consecutively to and prior to any | 2245 |
prison term imposed for the underlying violation of an offense of | 2246 |
violence and consecutively to and prior to any other prison term | 2247 |
or mandatory prison term previously or subsequently imposed upon | 2248 |
the offender. | 2249 |
(7) When consecutive prison terms are imposed pursuant to | 2250 |
division (C)(1), (2), (3), (4), | 2251 |
or (2) of this section, the term to be served is the aggregate of | 2252 |
all of the terms so imposed. | 2253 |
(D)(1) If a court imposes a prison term for a felony of the | 2254 |
first degree, for a felony of the second degree, for a felony sex | 2255 |
offense, or for a felony of the third degree that is not a felony | 2256 |
sex offense and in the commission of which the offender caused or | 2257 |
threatened to cause physical harm to a person, it shall include in | 2258 |
the sentence a requirement that the offender be subject to a | 2259 |
period of post-release control after the offender's release from | 2260 |
imprisonment, in accordance with that division. If a court imposes | 2261 |
a sentence including a prison term of a type described in this | 2262 |
division on or after July 11, 2006, the failure of a court to | 2263 |
include a post-release control requirement in the sentence | 2264 |
pursuant to this division does not negate, limit, or otherwise | 2265 |
affect the mandatory period of post-release control that is | 2266 |
required for the offender under division (B) of section 2967.28 of | 2267 |
the Revised Code. Section 2929.191 of the Revised Code applies if, | 2268 |
prior to July 11, 2006, a court imposed a sentence including a | 2269 |
prison term of a type described in this division and failed to | 2270 |
include in the sentence pursuant to this division a statement | 2271 |
regarding post-release control. | 2272 |
(2) If a court imposes a prison term for a felony of the | 2273 |
third, fourth, or fifth degree that is not subject to division | 2274 |
(D)(1) of this section, it shall include in the sentence a | 2275 |
requirement that the offender be subject to a period of | 2276 |
post-release control after the offender's release from | 2277 |
imprisonment, in accordance with that division, if the parole | 2278 |
board determines that a period of post-release control is | 2279 |
necessary. Section 2929.191 of the Revised Code applies if, prior | 2280 |
to July 11, 2006, a court imposed a sentence including a prison | 2281 |
term of a type described in this division and failed to include in | 2282 |
the sentence pursuant to this division a statement regarding | 2283 |
post-release control. | 2284 |
(E) The court shall impose sentence upon the offender in | 2285 |
accordance with section 2971.03 of the Revised Code, and Chapter | 2286 |
2971. of the Revised Code applies regarding the prison term or | 2287 |
term of life imprisonment without parole imposed upon the offender | 2288 |
and the service of that term of imprisonment if any of the | 2289 |
following apply: | 2290 |
(1) A person is convicted of or pleads guilty to a violent | 2291 |
sex offense or a designated homicide, assault, or kidnapping | 2292 |
offense, and, in relation to that offense, the offender is | 2293 |
adjudicated a sexually violent predator. | 2294 |
(2) A person is convicted of or pleads guilty to a violation | 2295 |
of division (A)(1)(b) of section 2907.02 of the Revised Code | 2296 |
committed on or after January 2, 2007, and either the court does | 2297 |
not impose a sentence of life without parole when authorized | 2298 |
pursuant to division (B) of section 2907.02 of the Revised Code, | 2299 |
or division (B) of section 2907.02 of the Revised Code provides | 2300 |
that the court shall not sentence the offender pursuant to section | 2301 |
2971.03 of the Revised Code. | 2302 |
(3) A person is convicted of or pleads guilty to attempted | 2303 |
rape committed on or after January 2, 2007, and a specification of | 2304 |
the type described in section 2941.1418, 2941.1419, or 2941.1420 | 2305 |
of the Revised Code. | 2306 |
(4) A person is convicted of or pleads guilty to a violation | 2307 |
of section 2905.01 of the Revised Code committed on or after | 2308 |
January 1, 2008, and that section requires the court to sentence | 2309 |
the offender pursuant to section 2971.03 of the Revised Code. | 2310 |
(5) A person is convicted of or pleads guilty to aggravated | 2311 |
murder committed on or after January 1, 2008, and division | 2312 |
(A)(2)(b)(ii) of section 2929.022, division (A)(1)(e), | 2313 |
(C)(1)(a)(v), (C)(2)(a)(ii), (D)(2)(b), (D)(3)(a)(iv), or | 2314 |
(E)(1)(d) of section 2929.03, or division (A) or (B) of section | 2315 |
2929.06 of the Revised Code requires the court to sentence the | 2316 |
offender pursuant to division (B)(3) of section 2971.03 of the | 2317 |
Revised Code. | 2318 |
(6) A person is convicted of or pleads guilty to murder | 2319 |
committed on or after January 1, 2008, and division (B)(2) of | 2320 |
section 2929.02 of the Revised Code requires the court to sentence | 2321 |
the offender pursuant to section 2971.03 of the Revised Code. | 2322 |
(F) If a person who has been convicted of or pleaded guilty | 2323 |
to a felony is sentenced to a prison term or term of imprisonment | 2324 |
under this section, sections 2929.02 to 2929.06 of the Revised | 2325 |
Code, section 2929.142 of the Revised Code, section 2971.03 of the | 2326 |
Revised Code, or any other provision of law, section 5120.163 of | 2327 |
the Revised Code applies regarding the person while the person is | 2328 |
confined in a state correctional institution. | 2329 |
(G) If an offender who is convicted of or pleads guilty to a | 2330 |
felony that is an offense of violence also is convicted of or | 2331 |
pleads guilty to a specification of the type described in section | 2332 |
2941.142 of the Revised Code that charges the offender with having | 2333 |
committed the felony while participating in a criminal gang, the | 2334 |
court shall impose upon the offender an additional prison term of | 2335 |
one, two, or three years. | 2336 |
(H)(1) If an offender who is convicted of or pleads guilty to | 2337 |
aggravated murder, murder, or a felony of the first, second, or | 2338 |
third degree that is an offense of violence also is convicted of | 2339 |
or pleads guilty to a specification of the type described in | 2340 |
section 2941.143 of the Revised Code that charges the offender | 2341 |
with having committed the offense in a school safety zone or | 2342 |
towards a person in a school safety zone, the court shall impose | 2343 |
upon the offender an additional prison term of two years. The | 2344 |
offender shall serve the additional two years consecutively to and | 2345 |
prior to the prison term imposed for the underlying offense. | 2346 |
(2)(a) If an offender is convicted of or pleads guilty to a | 2347 |
felony violation of section 2907.22, 2907.24, 2907.241, or 2907.25 | 2348 |
of the Revised Code and to a specification of the type described | 2349 |
in section 2941.1421 of the Revised Code and if the court imposes | 2350 |
a prison term on the offender for the felony violation, the court | 2351 |
may impose upon the offender an additional prison term as follows: | 2352 |
(i) Subject to division (H)(2)(a)(ii) of this section, an | 2353 |
additional prison term of one, two, three, four, five, or six | 2354 |
months; | 2355 |
(ii) If the offender previously has been convicted of or | 2356 |
pleaded guilty to one or more felony or misdemeanor violations of | 2357 |
section 2907.22, 2907.23, 2907.24, 2907.241, or 2907.25 of the | 2358 |
Revised Code and also was convicted of or pleaded guilty to a | 2359 |
specification of the type described in section 2941.1421 of the | 2360 |
Revised Code regarding one or more of those violations, an | 2361 |
additional prison term of one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, | 2362 |
eight, nine, ten, eleven, or twelve months. | 2363 |
(b) In lieu of imposing an additional prison term under | 2364 |
division (H)(2)(a) of this section, the court may directly impose | 2365 |
on the offender a sanction that requires the offender to wear a | 2366 |
real-time processing, continual tracking electronic monitoring | 2367 |
device during the period of time specified by the court. The | 2368 |
period of time specified by the court shall equal the duration of | 2369 |
an additional prison term that the court could have imposed upon | 2370 |
the offender under division (H)(2)(a) of this section. A sanction | 2371 |
imposed under this division shall commence on the date specified | 2372 |
by the court, provided that the sanction shall not commence until | 2373 |
after the offender has served the prison term imposed for the | 2374 |
felony violation of section 2907.22, 2907.24, 2907.241, or 2907.25 | 2375 |
of the Revised Code and any residential sanction imposed for the | 2376 |
violation under section 2929.16 of the Revised Code. A sanction | 2377 |
imposed under this division shall be considered to be a community | 2378 |
control sanction for purposes of section 2929.15 of the Revised | 2379 |
Code, and all provisions of the Revised Code that pertain to | 2380 |
community control sanctions shall apply to a sanction imposed | 2381 |
under this division, except to the extent that they would by their | 2382 |
nature be clearly inapplicable. The offender shall pay all costs | 2383 |
associated with a sanction imposed under this division, including | 2384 |
the cost of the use of the monitoring device. | 2385 |
(I) At the time of sentencing, the court may recommend the | 2386 |
offender for placement in a program of shock incarceration under | 2387 |
section 5120.031 of the Revised Code or for placement in an | 2388 |
intensive program prison under section 5120.032 of the Revised | 2389 |
Code, disapprove placement of the offender in a program of shock | 2390 |
incarceration or an intensive program prison of that nature, or | 2391 |
make no recommendation on placement of the offender. In no case | 2392 |
shall the department of rehabilitation and correction place the | 2393 |
offender in a program or prison of that nature unless the | 2394 |
department determines as specified in section 5120.031 or 5120.032 | 2395 |
of the Revised Code, whichever is applicable, that the offender is | 2396 |
eligible for the placement. | 2397 |
If the court disapproves placement of the offender in a | 2398 |
program or prison of that nature, the department of rehabilitation | 2399 |
and correction shall not place the offender in any program of | 2400 |
shock incarceration or intensive program prison. | 2401 |
If the court recommends placement of the offender in a | 2402 |
program of shock incarceration or in an intensive program prison, | 2403 |
and if the offender is subsequently placed in the recommended | 2404 |
program or prison, the department shall notify the court of the | 2405 |
placement and shall include with the notice a brief description of | 2406 |
the placement. | 2407 |
If the court recommends placement of the offender in a | 2408 |
program of shock incarceration or in an intensive program prison | 2409 |
and the department does not subsequently place the offender in the | 2410 |
recommended program or prison, the department shall send a notice | 2411 |
to the court indicating why the offender was not placed in the | 2412 |
recommended program or prison. | 2413 |
If the court does not make a recommendation under this | 2414 |
division with respect to an offender and if the department | 2415 |
determines as specified in section 5120.031 or 5120.032 of the | 2416 |
Revised Code, whichever is applicable, that the offender is | 2417 |
eligible for placement in a program or prison of that nature, the | 2418 |
department shall screen the offender and determine if there is an | 2419 |
available program of shock incarceration or an intensive program | 2420 |
prison for which the offender is suited. If there is an available | 2421 |
program of shock incarceration or an intensive program prison for | 2422 |
which the offender is suited, the department shall notify the | 2423 |
court of the proposed placement of the offender as specified in | 2424 |
section 5120.031 or 5120.032 of the Revised Code and shall include | 2425 |
with the notice a brief description of the placement. The court | 2426 |
shall have ten days from receipt of the notice to disapprove the | 2427 |
placement. | 2428 |
(J) If a person is convicted of or pleads guilty to | 2429 |
aggravated vehicular homicide in violation of division (A)(1) of | 2430 |
section 2903.06 of the Revised Code and division (B)(2)(c) of that | 2431 |
section applies, the person shall be sentenced pursuant to section | 2432 |
2929.142 of the Revised Code. | 2433 |
Sec. 2941.1424. (A) Imposition of a mandatory prison term of | 2434 |
five, six, seven, eight, nine, or ten years upon an offender under | 2435 |
division (B)(9) of section 2929.14 of the Revised Code is | 2436 |
precluded unless the offender is convicted of or pleads guilty to | 2437 |
a felony offense of violence and unless the indictment, count in | 2438 |
the indictment, or information charging the offense specifies that | 2439 |
the victim of the offense suffered permanent disabling harm as a | 2440 |
result of the offense. The specification shall be stated at the | 2441 |
end of the body of the indictment, count, or information and shall | 2442 |
be stated in substantially the following form: | 2443 |
"SPECIFICATION (or, SPECIFICATION TO THE FIRST COUNT). The | 2444 |
Grand Jurors (or insert the person's or the prosecuting attorney's | 2445 |
name when appropriate) further find and specify that (set forth | 2446 |
that the victim of the offense suffered permanent disabling harm | 2447 |
as a result of the offense)." | 2448 |
(B) As used in this section, "permanent disabling harm" has | 2449 |
the same meaning as in section 2929.01 of the Revised Code. | 2450 |
Section 2. That existing sections 2743.51, 2743.60, 2743.65, | 2451 |
2929.01, 2929.13, and 2929.14 of the Revised Code are hereby | 2452 |
repealed. | 2453 |
Section 3. This act shall be known as "Destiny's Law." | 2454 |