State v. Gumm

2026 Ohio 211
CourtOhio Court of Appeals
DecidedJanuary 23, 2026
DocketE-24-046
StatusPublished

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State v. Gumm, 2026 Ohio 211 (Ohio Ct. App. 2026).

Opinion

[Cite as State v. Gumm, 2026-Ohio-211.]

IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF OHIO SIXTH APPELLATE DISTRICT ERIE COUNTY

State of Ohio Court of Appeals No. E-24-046

Appellee Trial Court No. 20200CR00106 v.

Leslie A. Gumm DECISION AND JUDGMENT

Appellant Decided: January 23, 2026

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Kevin J. Baxter, Prosecuting Attorney and Kristin R. Palmer, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for appellee

Michael H. Stahl, for appellant

OSOWIK, P.J.

{¶ 1} This is a delayed appeal from the August 15, 2025 journalized judgment

entry by the Erie County Court of Common Pleas, which, upon the second reversal and

remand from this court, State v. Gumm, E-22-054 (6th Dist. Oct. 6, 2023), resentenced appellant, Leslie Allante-Napoleon Gumm, to an aggregate sentence of eight years after

the trial court accepted appellant’s guilty pleas to ten of eighteen felony offenses and

convicted him of them: two counts of burglary, one count of failure to comply, and seven

counts of grand theft.1

{¶ 2} Prior to the second reversal and remand by this court under App.R. 12(D),

the trial court ordered in its first resentencing judgment entry journalized on November

16, 2022, “Defendant shall receive 687 days credit for time served as of November 9,

2022. Any prior prison time will be calculated by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation

and Corrections.” The trial court further ordered, “the institution shall credit defendant

for time served from the date of sentencing until reception at said facility.”

{¶ 3} Also prior to the second reversal and remand by this court, by judgment

entry journalized on December 27, 2022, the trial court explained the purpose of its nunc

pro tunc entry of that November 16 entry:

This case shall be amended NUNC PRO TUNC to correct a typographical error in the Judgment entry filed on November 16, 2022, in that defendant’s jail time credit2 from the Erie County Jail as of November 9, 2022 should be ‘376 days.’ The Judgment Entry shall read as follows: . . . Defendant shall receive 376 days credit for time served as of November 9, 2022. Any prior prison time will be calculated by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections. . . . [T]he institution shall credit defendant for time served from the date of sentencing until reception at said facility.

1 These are count Nos. one, two, and four through 11 as stated in State v. Gumm, 2022- Ohio-2287, ¶ 2 (6th Dist.). 22 “The term ‘jail-time credit’ is used as shorthand for custody credit” under R.C. 2967.191. State v. Fugate, 2008-Ohio-856, ¶ 1, fn. 1. 2. {¶ 4} Under Crim.R. 36, “Clerical mistakes in judgments, orders, or other parts of

the record, and errors in the record arising from oversight or omission, may be corrected

by the court at any time.” The December 27 journalized nun pro tunc entry did not

replace the original November 16 journalized judgment entry but related back to it. State

v. Thompson, 2014-Ohio-4751, ¶ 43.

{¶ 5} In this appeal, appellant does not challenge the knowing, intelligent, and

voluntary nature of his guilty pleas negotiated with appellee, State of Ohio, in case No.

2020-CR-0106. Rather, appellant’s sole assignment of error is, “The trial court erred

when it failed to properly determine Mr. Gumm’s jail time credit and failed to conduct a

hearing on the matter.”

{¶ 6} In its sentencing judgment entry journalized on August 15, 2025, the trial

court ordered the sheriff to convey appellant to the Lorain Correctional Institution at

Grafton, Ohio for his imprisonment and confinement. The trial court further ordered,

“Defendant shall receive 648 days credit for time served as of August 7, 2024. Any prior

prison time will be calculated by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and

Corrections.” The trial court further ordered, “the institution shall credit defendant for

time served from the date of sentencing until reception at said facility.”

{¶ 7} In support of his sole assignment of error, appellant argues he met his

burden to show an error in the jail-time credit calculation, citing State v. Hearn, 2021-

Ohio-86, ¶ 19 (6th Dist.). Appellant argues that as of August 7, 2024, he was entitled to

687 days of jail-time credit, which is “an additional 311 days of credit” to the 376 days

ordered by the trial court in its now-reversed December 27, 2022 journalized entry.

3. Citing State v. Dobbins, 2020-Ohio-726, ¶ 18-19 (12th Dist.), appellant argues the

appropriate jail-time credit calculation was fixed at 687 days ordered by the trial court in

its now-reversed November 16, 2022 entry and that the trial court impermissibly took

away those 311 days “without stating a reason,” However, the December 27 nunc pro

tunc entry explained it was to correct a typographical error in the prior entry “that

defendant’s jail time credit from the Erie County Jail as of November 9, 2022 should be

‘376 days.’”

{¶ 8} Appellant further argues that during his resentencing hearing on August 7,

2024, “the court appeared to agree that Mr. Gumm should receive a combination of jail

and prison time credit from March 9, 2020, . . . but did not calculate any specific time . . .

[and] applied a lesser jail time credit without conducting any factfinding or calculation on

the record.” When appellant’s counsel was unsure on the record whether March 9, 2020,

was the date appellant was first arrested and entered the Erie County Jail, the trial court

responded, “and that should be in the sentencing entry,” which the court already

described as, “So the sentence should be, in adherence to the [plea] agreement, 8 years,

and he gets the credit that he’s currently done.”

{¶ 9} Appellant concludes that the increase from 376 days of jail-time credit as of

November 9, 2022, to 648 days as of August 7, 2024, was also without explanation

because “Mr. Gumm does not know why.” Yet, the transcript of the August 7 hearing

shows appellant’s counsel addressed the court prior to the plea colloquy:

I would have to say if there’s any client in the world that understands the procedures it is Mr. Gumm. . . . He just had legal issues that he wanted explained to him and have time to read. And, fortunately, the Court gave us

4. enough time that we were able to discuss it, and give him the cases and stuff so that I'm very confident that the plea, which is forthcoming today, will have been done knowingly, intelligently, and voluntarily. And, again, we thank the Prosecutor’s office. They were not vindictive. They’re allowing him to re-plead to the same thing. They didn’t have to. And we appreciate their understanding and patience of this matter. Thank you.

{¶ 10} Then appellant changes his argument for 687 days of jail-time credit by

citing to State v. Williams, 2024-Ohio-5578, ¶ 88 (5th Dist.) and R.C.

2929.19(B)(2)(g)(iii).3 Appellant argues that on April 11, 2025, or seven months after

filing his notice initiating this appeal, he filed with the trial court a motion to add 259

days to the 648 days of jail-time credit the trial court ordered as of August 7, 2024, or a

total of 907 days. However, according to the calculations in his motion, appellant actually

argues he is entitled to a total of 1,607 days of jail-time credit as of August 21, 2024: (a)

two days at the Wood County Jail from March 9 to March 11, 2020; (b) 15 days at the

Erie County Jail from March 11 to March 26, 2020; (c) 280 days at the Egler Reception

& Guidance Center in Jackson, Michigan from March 26, 2020, to January 7, 2021; (d)

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Related

State v. Thompson (Slip Opinion)
2014 Ohio 4751 (Ohio Supreme Court, 2014)
State v. Bainter, Ot-08-002 (2-6-2009)
2009 Ohio 510 (Ohio Court of Appeals, 2009)
State v. Mitchell, Unpublished Decision (11-18-2005)
2005 Ohio 6138 (Ohio Court of Appeals, 2005)
State v. Garver
2017 Ohio 1107 (Ohio Court of Appeals, 2017)
State v. Dobbins
2020 Ohio 726 (Ohio Court of Appeals, 2020)
State v. Novoa
2023 Ohio 3595 (Ohio Court of Appeals, 2023)
State v. Williams
2024 Ohio 5578 (Ohio Court of Appeals, 2024)
State v. Thomas
2024 Ohio 5851 (Ohio Court of Appeals, 2024)
State v. McCormick
2025 Ohio 5549 (Ohio Court of Appeals, 2025)

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