State v. Schiefer

2016 Ohio 8180

• Court: Ohio Court of Appeals
• Decided: December 8, 2016
• Docket: 16-CA-53
• Status: Published

Opinion

[Cite as State v. Schiefer, 2016-Ohio-8180.]

COURT OF APPEALS LICKING COUNTY, OHIO FIFTH APPELLATE DISTRICT

STATE OF OHIO JUDGES: Hon. Sheila G. Farmer, P.J. Plaintiff-Appellee Hon. William B. Hoffman, J. Hon. Patricia A. Delaney, J. -vs-

DANIEL SCHIEFER Case No. 16-CA-53

Defendant-Appellant OPINION

CHARACTER OF PROCEEDING: Appeal from the Licking County Court of Common Pleas, Case No. 14 CR 557

JUDGMENT: Affirmed

DATE OF JUDGMENT ENTRY: December 8, 2016

APPEARANCES:

For Plaintiff-Appellee For Defendant-Appellant

KENNETH OSWALT DANIEL SCHIEFER, PRO SE Licking County Prosecutor's Office #709-756 20 S. Second St. N.C.C.C. Newark, Ohio 43055 P.O. Box 1812 Marion, Ohio 43301 Licking County, Case No. 16-CA-53 2

Hoffman, J.

{¶1} Defendant-appellant Daniel Schiefer appeals the July 5, 2016 Judgment

Entry entered by the Licking County Court of Common Pleas denying his motion for

resentencing. Plaintiff-appellee is the state of Ohio.

STATEMENT OF THE CASE1

{¶2} On February 13, 2015 Appellant entered a plea of guilty to one count of

burglary and was sentenced to two years in prison, the term to run consecutively to

Appellant’s four year sentence in Knox County Court of Common Pleas on counts of

burglary and safe cracking. Appellant did not file a direct appeal from his convictions and

sentence.

{¶3} On May 2, 2016, Appellant filed a motion for resentencing. The trial court,

via Judgment Entry of July 5, 2016, denied Appellant’s motion.

{¶4} Appellant appeals, assigning as error,

{¶5} I. TRIAL COURT ERRED WHEN IT FAILED TO MAKE REQUIRED

STATUTORY FINDINGS UNDER 2929.14(C)(4) ON THE RECORD AND JOURNAL

ENTRY BEFORE SENTENCING MR. SCHIEFER TO CONSECUTIVE SENTENCES.

{¶6} II. THE TRIAL COURT ERRED WHEN IT FAILED TO FIND INEFFECTIVE

ASSISTANCE OF MR. SCHIEFER’S COUNSEL FOR COUNSEL’S FAILURE TO

CONSULT WITH HIM AFTER NOTIFYING COUNSEL HE WISHED TO APPEAL HIS

SENTENCE VIOLATING HIS 6TH AMENDMENT CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS.

1 A full rendition of the underlying facts is unnecessary for resolution of this appeal. Licking County, Case No. 16-CA-53 3

{¶7} Preliminarily, we note this case comes to us on the accelerated calendar.

App.R. 11.1, which governs accelerated calendar cases, provides in pertinent part the

following:

(E) Determination and judgment on appeal

The appeal will be determined as provided by App. R. 11.1. It shall

be sufficient compliance with App. R. 12(A) for the statement of the reason

for the court's decision as to each error to be in brief and conclusionary

form.

The decision may be by judgment entry in which case it will not be

published in any form.

{¶8} One of the important purposes of the accelerated calendar is to enable an

appellate court to render a brief and conclusory decision more quickly than in a case on

the regular calendar where the briefs, facts, and legal issues are more complicated.

Crawford v. Eastland Shopping Mall Association, 11 Ohio App.3d 158 (10th Dist.1983).

{¶9} This appeal shall be considered in accordance with the aforementioned

rules.

I.

{¶10} Appellant maintains the trial court failed to make the necessary statutory

findings required for the imposition of consecutive sentences at the sentencing hearing

and in his judgment entry of sentence. Licking County, Case No. 16-CA-53 4

{¶11} As set forth above, Appellant did not file a direct appeal from his conviction

and sentence herein.

{¶12} Under the doctrine of res judicata, a final judgment of conviction bars the

defendant from raising and litigating in any proceeding, except an appeal from that

judgment, any defense or any claimed lack of due process that the defendant raised or

could have raised at the trial which resulted in that judgment of conviction or on appeal

from that judgment. State v. Perry, 10 Ohio St.2d 175, 226 N.E.2d 104 (1967). Res

judicata also implicitly prohibits a defendant from “re-packaging” evidence or issues that

either were, or could have been, raised in the context of the petitioner's trial or direct

appeal. State v. Lawson, 103 Ohio App.3d 307, 315, 659 N.E.2d 362(12th Dist.1995).

{¶13} Appellant’s claim the trial court erred in imposing consecutive sentences

could have been raised in a direct appeal from his sentence. State v. Wolfe, Delaware

No. 16CAA020008, 2016-Ohio-4616; See State v. Adams, 10th Dist. No. 14AP–623,

2015–Ohio–868, ¶ 8 (defendant's claim that the trial court erred by failing to make the

findings required by R.C. 2929.14(C)(4) before imposing consecutive sentences could

have been raised in his direct appeal, and thus “any further review of defendant's

sentence is barred by res judicata”); State v. Petitto, 8th Dist. No. 99893, 2013–Ohio–

5435, ¶ 13 (defendant's claim that the trial court imposed consecutive sentences without

making appropriate findings “could have and should have been raised in a timely filed

appeal” from trial court's sentencing entry, and therefore “this claim is now barred by the

doctrine of res judicata”); State v. Ferrell, 5th Dist. No.2013CA00121, 2013–Ohio–5521,

¶ 15 (“Appellant either raised or could have raised arguments regarding the

appropriateness of consecutive sentences * * * during his direct appeal.) Licking County, Case No. 16-CA-53 5

{¶14} The Ohio Supreme Court has declined to find sentences void based on the

court's failure to comply with certain sentencing statutes, including the consecutive

sentencing statute. State v. Sanders, 9th Dist. Summit No. 27189, 2014–Ohio–5115, ¶ 5,

citing State v. Holdcroft, 137 Ohio St.3d 526, 2013–Ohio–5014, ¶ 8 (noting that

challenges to a sentencing court's judgment as to whether sentences must be served

concurrently or consecutively must be presented in a timely direct appeal). Thus, because

the trial court's “alleged failure to comply with the consecutive sentencing statute does

not render [the] sentence void, res judicata applies.” Id. at ¶ 6. Accord, State v. Bowshier,

2nd Dist. Clark No.2015–CA–53, 2016–Ohio–1416, ¶ 16; State v. Hall, 9th Dist. Summit

No. 27942, 2016–Ohio–909, ¶ 7; State v. Chapin, 10th Dist. Franklin No. 14AP–1003,

2015–Ohio–3013, ¶ 8.

{¶15} We find Appellant’s argument in the first assignment of error concerning the

trial court’s alleged failure to make the statutory findings prior to imposing consecutive

sentences is barred by the doctrine of res judicata.

II.

{¶16} Appellant further asserts the trial court erred in denying his motion for

resentencing as he was denied the effective of assistance of counsel for counsel’s failure

to file a direct appeal or to consult with him regarding a direct appeal.

{¶17} We find Appellant’s motion for resentencing is not the proper procedural

mechanism to raise an ineffective assistance of counsel argument of failure to file a direct

appeal.

{¶18} Accordingly, Appellant’s second assignment of error is overruled. Licking County, Case No. 16-CA-53 6

{¶19} The July 5, 2016 Judgment Entry of the Licking County Court of Common

Pleas is affirmed.

By: Hoffman, J.

Farmer, P.J. and

Delaney, J. concur