State v. Hill , 2015 Ohio 5166 ( 2015 )

[Cite as State v. Hill, 2015-Ohio-5166.]
IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF OHIO
SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT
MONTGOMERY COUNTY
STATE OF OHIO :
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Plaintiff-Appellee : C.A. CASE NO. 26581
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v. : T.C. NO. 14CRB920
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SCHUANTE M. HILL : (Criminal Appeal from
: Municipal Court)
Defendant-Appellant :
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OPINION
Rendered on the ___11th___ day of ____December___, 2015.
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CHRISTINE L. BURK, Atty. Reg. No. 0050559, 10 North First Street, Miamisburg, Ohio
45342
Attorney for Plaintiff-Appellee
MARIA L. RABOLD, Atty. Reg. No. 0089080, 443 E. Central Avenue, Miamisburg, Ohio
45342
Attorney for Defendant-Appellant
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FROELICH, P.J.
{¶ 1} Shuante M. Hill was convicted after a bench trial in the Miamisburg Municipal
Court of assault, a first-degree misdemeanor, and disorderly conduct, a fourth-degree
misdemeanor. Hill appeals from her convictions, claiming that they were based on
insufficient evidence and against the manifest weight of the evidence. For the following
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reasons, the trial court’s judgment will be affirmed in part, reversed in part, and remanded
for further proceedings.
I. Factual and Procedural History
{¶ 2} The State’s evidence at trial revealed the following facts.
{¶ 3} On May 20, 2014, Hill and Reniquia Hughes were neighbors in an apartment
complex in Miami Township. At some point during the day, Tonya Green, another
resident at the complex, saw Hill outside of Hughes’s apartment. Hill was screaming,
“Bitch, come outside. You have kids just like I do.” Green testified that Hughes was not
home.
{¶ 4} Later that same day, in the late afternoon, the complex’s clubhouse hosted
an event for families with children starting kindergarten during which the children could
meet their principal and kindergarten teachers. Hughes attended the event with her
kindergarten-age daughter and a teenaged daughter. At approximately 6:00 p.m.,
Hughes and her children walked back toward their apartment. Along the way, Hughes
talked with Deborah Borrero and her family, who had also attended the event. Borrero
and her children stopped at the playground, and Hughes and her children kept going.
{¶ 5} As Hughes was in the parking lot near her apartment, Hill approached her
and asked if Hughes had complained to the office about her (Hill’s) children’s toys.
Hughes responded that she had not, but Hill “kept walking up on me.” Hughes stated
that she repeatedly stepped back and asked Hill to back up, but Hill “was aggressive.”
Hughes testified, “The more I asked her to back up, the more aggressive she got.”
Hughes asked someone to call the police.
{¶ 6} Hughes testified that Hill struck her (Hughes’s) hand, knocking a cup out of
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it. Hughes then struck Hill in the face, and a fight ensued. During the altercation, Hill
tripped on the curb, and she fell to the ground. Hughes fell on top of Hill, and Hughes
was unable to get up because Hill was holding onto Hughes’s hair. Hughes testified that
Hill bit her right hand, struck her, pulled her hair, and caused her earring to come out.
Several people, including Hughes’s teenaged daughter, tried to get the women apart.
Eventually, the fight was broken up. Hill went back to her apartment after the fight.
Hughes waited for the police to arrive.
{¶ 7} At approximately 6:15 p.m., Miami Township Police Officer Scott Miller was
dispatched to the apartment complex on a report of a fight in progress. When Officer
Miller arrived, people were “just milling around.” Hughes approached him and reported
that she had been assaulted. At that point, Officers Hesler and Hupp also arrived, and
Officer Hupp took a statement from Hughes.1 Officers Miller and Hesler went to Hill’s
apartment to get a statement from her.
{¶ 8} Officer Miller testified that he knocked on Hill’s door, and she answered it.
He could tell from scratches on her face that she had recently been in a fight. Miller had
one foot across the threshold, and he used his hip to keep the door open. Miller asked
Hill if she could get her identification. Hill responded, “Yes, I can. Step out of my
entryway and I will shut the door and go get it.” Officer Miller replied, “I will just stay right
here, just go grab your ID real quick and we will get this going.”
{¶ 9} Hill attempted to close the door on Officer Miller and said that he could not
come into her house without a warrant. Officer Miller tried to explain that he was just
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The transcript spells the officers’ names as Hessler and Huff. These appear to be
typographical errors. For correctness, we will use the spellings from the police report
prepared by Officer Hesler.
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there to investigate the fight, but Hill talked over him and yelled at him, using obscenities.
Miller stated that he “could not get a word in edgewise.” Officer Hesler then stepped in
and tried to speak with Hill; Hill “continued to scream and yell” loudly. Officer Miller
testified that there were several children in the house and behind him, and that he and
Officer Hesler had asked Hill to calm down six or seven times. Miller decided to arrest
Hill for obstructing official business and disorderly conduct. Approximately one to two
minutes elapsed between the time Officer Miller first asked for Hill’s identification and her
arrest.
{¶ 10} Officer Miller placed Hill into his cruiser. Hill continued to yell at the
officers, complaining that she had been arrested for getting beaten up. While in the
cruiser, she stated, “The bitch came up on me and I hit her.”
{¶ 11} Hill was charged by complaint with assault, obstructing official business,
and disorderly conduct. Following a trial to the court, she was found guilty of assault and
disorderly conduct, but acquitted of obstructing official business. On January 29, 2015,
after a presentence investigation, the trial court orally sentenced her for the assault to (1)
180 days in jail, with 170 days suspended, conditioned on Hill’s successful completion of
one year of probation; the 10 days were to be served in two five-day increments; (2) a
$180 fine, plus court costs; (3) completion of a one-day anger management class, and
(4) one year of reporting probation. As for the disorderly conduct, the court further stated
that it was “going to impose the exact sentence I already have, and just run them
concurrent.”
{¶ 12} The same day as sentencing, the trial court filed three signed “docket
entries” for the three charged offenses, which indicated that Hill had been found guilty of
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assault and disorderly conduct and acquitted of obstructing official business, respectively.
The docket entry for the assault charge reflected the sentence that had been orally
imposed by the trial court. The docket entry for the disorderly conduct charge indicated
the suspended jail sentence and the imposition of a fine and court costs.
{¶ 13} On February 2, 2015, the trial court filed an “entry and order of conviction
and sentence,” which the trial court labeled a “final appealable order.” The entry stated
that Hill had pled guilty to assault and that the trial court had dismissed the charges of
obstructing official business and disorderly conduct. The entry reflected the sentence
that had been orally imposed for the assault.
{¶ 14} In a subsequent nunc pro tunc entry, filed May 28, 2015, the trial court
indicated that Hill had pled guilty to disorderly conduct and that the court had imposed a
$180 fine, plus court costs, and had sentenced her to 180 days in jail, with 170 days
suspended, to be served concurrently with the jail term for assault. The entry further
ordered that the jail term for disorderly conduct be corrected to 30 days in jail, with 20
days suspended.
{¶ 15} Upon Hill’s motion, the trial court stayed Hill’s jail sentence pending appeal.
{¶ 16} Hill appeals, raising four assignments of error.
II. Final Appealable Orders
{¶ 17} Before addressing Hill’s assignments of error, it is necessary to address the
entries filed by the trial court subsequent to Hill’s sentencing hearing.
{¶ 18} Crim.R. 32(C) provides:
A judgment of conviction shall set forth the fact of conviction and the
sentence. Multiple judgments of conviction may be addressed in one
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judgment entry. If the defendant is found not guilty or for any other reason
is entitled to be discharged, the court shall render judgment accordingly.
The judge shall sign the judgment and the clerk shall enter it on the journal.
A judgment is effective only when entered on the journal by the clerk.
In State v. Lester, 130 Ohio St. 3d 303, 2011-Ohio-5204, 958 N.E.2d 142, the Supreme
Court of Ohio determined that a “judgment of conviction is a final order subject to appeal
under R.C. 2505.02 when it sets forth (1) the fact of the conviction, (2) the sentence, (3)
the judge’s signature, and (4) the time stamp indicating the entry upon the journal by the
clerk.” Lester, paragraph one of the syllabus.
{¶ 19} The trial court filed three docket entries on January 29, the day of Hill’s
sentencing. The docket entries consisted of a completed form on which the judge
indicated Hill’s initial plea, the trial court’s finding of guilty or not guilty, and the sentence,
if applicable. A caption at the top of each document indicated the case name, case
number, charge, statutory section for the charge, degree of the offense, offense date, the
complainant, and the police agency involved. The entries were signed by the trial judge
and filed with the clerk. A statement above the judge’s signature stated, “The court has
entered a finding in this matter and the defendant has been sentenced appropriately.
This has been journalized in the Miamisburg Municipal Court docket;” a handwritten date
was provided. These docket entries satisfy Crim.R. 32(C) and are final appealable
orders.
{¶ 20} The trial court issued a purported final judgment entry on February 2, 2015.
Because the January 29 docket entries were final appealable orders, the February 2 entry
was a legal nullity.
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{¶ 21} The February 2 entry erroneously stated that the disorderly conduct charge
had been dismissed, and the trial court attempted to remedy this omission in its May 28
nunc pro tunc entry. Because the February 2 entry was a legal nullity, that portion of the
May 28 entry was also a legal nullity.
{¶ 22} The May 28 entry also attempted to correct the trial court’s unlawful
sentence (180 days) for disorderly conduct, which was a fourth-degree misdemeanor.
See R.C. 2929.24(A)(4) (maximum jail term for a misdemeanor of the fourth degree is 30
days). However, nunc pro tunc entries are used only to correct clerical errors so that the
record reflects what the court actually decided, not what it might or should have decided.
State v. Winston, 182 Ohio App. 3d 306, 2009-Ohio-2171, 912 N.E.2d 655, ¶ 13-14 (2d
Dist.); Crim.R. 36. A court may not use a nunc pro tunc entry to impose a sanction
that the court did not impose as part of the sentence at sentencing. State v. Miller,
127 Ohio St. 3d 407, 2010-Ohio-5705, 940 N.E.2d 924, syllabus. Assuming that the
trial court could resentence Hill while her appeal was pending, a nunc pro tunc entry was
not the proper vehicle to resentence her. See Crim.R. 43(A) (1) (requiring defendant’s
physical presence at every stage of the criminal proceeding, including the imposition of
sentence).
{¶ 23} The final appealable orders before us are the docket entries filed on January
29, 2015.
III. Sufficiency and Manifest Weight of the Evidence
{¶ 24} Hill’s first and second assignments of error claim that her conviction for
disorderly conduct was against the manifest weight of the evidence and was based on
insufficient evidence. Her third and fourth assignments of error claim that her conviction
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for assault was against the manifest weight of the evidence and based on insufficient
evidence.
{¶ 25} “A sufficiency of the evidence argument disputes whether the State has
presented adequate evidence on each element of the offense to allow the case to go to
the jury or sustain the verdict as a matter of law.” State v. Wilson, 2d Dist. Montgomery
No. 22581, 2009-Ohio-525, ¶ 10, citing State v. Thompkins, 78 Ohio St. 3d 380, 386, 678
N.E.2d 541 (1997). When reviewing whether the State has presented sufficient evidence
to support a conviction, the relevant inquiry is whether any rational finder of fact, after
viewing the evidence in a light most favorable to the State, could have found the essential
elements of the crime proven beyond a reasonable doubt. State v. Dennis, 79 Ohio
St.3d 421, 430, 683 N.E.2d 1096 (1997). A guilty verdict will not be disturbed on appeal
unless “reasonable minds could not reach the conclusion reached by the trier-of-fact.”
Id.
{¶ 26} In contrast, “a weight of the evidence argument challenges the believability
of the evidence and asks which of the competing inferences suggested by the evidence
is more believable or persuasive.” Wilson at ¶ 12; see Eastley v. Volkman, 132 Ohio
St.3d 328, 2012-Ohio-2179, 972 N.E.2d 517, ¶ 19 (“ ‘manifest weight of the evidence’
refers to a greater amount of credible evidence and relates to persuasion”). When
evaluating whether a conviction is against the manifest weight of the evidence, the
appellate court must review the entire record, weigh the evidence and all reasonable
inferences, consider witness credibility, and determine whether, in resolving conflicts in
the evidence, the trier of fact “clearly lost its way and created such a manifest miscarriage
of justice that the conviction must be reversed and a new trial ordered.” Thompkins at
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387, citing State v. Martin, 20 Ohio App. 3d 172, 175, 485 N.E.2d 717 (1st Dist.1983).
{¶ 27} Because the trier of fact sees and hears the witnesses at trial, we must defer
to the factfinder’s decisions whether, and to what extent, to credit the testimony of
particular witnesses. State v. Lawson, 2d Dist. Montgomery No. 16288, 1997 WL
476684 (Aug. 22, 1997). The fact that the evidence is subject to different interpretations
does not render the conviction against the manifest weight of the evidence. Wilson at ¶
14. A judgment of conviction should be reversed as being against the manifest weight
of the evidence only in exceptional circumstances. Martin at 175.
A. Assault
{¶ 28} In her third and fourth assignments of error, Hill claims that her convictions
for assault were against the manifest weight of the evidence and based on insufficient
evidence. Hill asserts that Hughes threw the first punch and that Hill did not throw a
punch until Hughes waved her hands in Hill’s face and hit Hill’s eye. Hill further claims
that she established that she acted in self-defense.
{¶ 29} Hughes testified that Hill approached her in an aggressive manner,
accusing Hughes of complaining to apartment management about her (Hill’s) children’s
toys. Hughes stated that she kept backing up and asking Hill to step back, but Hill “kept
walking up on me.” Hughes testified that the fight began after Hill struck Hughes’s hand,
knocking a cup out of it. According to Hughes, Hill hit her in the face, bit her, pulled her
hair, and scratched her during the fight. Hill fell down, pulling Hughes on top of her;
Hughes could not get up because Hill had Hughes’s hair. Hughes’s daughter testified
similarly at trial.
{¶ 30} Several individuals at the complex wtinessed the verbal and physical
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altercation between Hill and Hughes. Borrero testified that she “heard this massive
commotion” with cursing and yelling, and then she saw Hill “swing at Mrs. Hughes.”
Borrero specifically testified that Hill swung first; prior to that, it was only a verbal
altercation. Borrero further testified that every time the fight broke up, Hill went after
Hughes.
{¶ 31} Green heard screaming and yelling from inside her apartment. When she
came outside, she saw Hughes on top of Hill and that Hill had Hughes’s hair. Green
stated that she and Hughes’s daughter tried to separate Hill and Hughes.
{¶ 32} Hill presented two witnesses on her behalf. Angela Harrison testified that
she knew Hill from high school. On May 20, 2014, Harrison was visiting another friend
at the apartment complex where Hill lived. Harrison heard arguing in the parking lot near
her friend’s apartment and came outside. Hughes and Hill were using profanity and had
their fingers pointed at each other’s faces; Harrison believed they were about to fight.
Harrison stated that it looked like Hughes might have poked Hill in the face, and the fight
ensued. Harrison testified that she did not know who took the first swing. She stated,
“I saw them arguing and then like it was just fightin[g].”
{¶ 33} Gerald Jernigan, a family friend of Hill, testified that he was at Hill’s
apartment on May 20, 2014, and he went outside with Hill and her daughter to confront a
neighbor. Jernigan testified that the neighbor started getting loud and putting her hands
in Hill’s face, and “then they just starting fightin[g].” Jernigan stated that the neighbor’s
daughter jumped into the fight to help her mother. Jernigan got Hill’s “male friend,” who
broke up the fight.
{¶ 34} Hill also testified that she talked with Hughes about something that Hughes
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supposedly did to Hill’s daughter. The conversation turned into an argument, with a lot
of gesturing by both women. Hill stated that Hughes hit her (Hill) in the face close to
Hill’s eye with her (Hughes’s) finger. After that, the women fought. Hill testified, “I pulled
her hair, she pulled mine, I hit her, she hit me.” Hill denied that Hughes ever asked her
to let go of Hughes’s hair. Hill testified that Hughes’s daughter joined the fight, and it
was eventually broken up by Hill’s friend.
{¶ 35} Considering all of the evidence at trial, the State presented sufficient
evidence to support Hill’s conviction for assault, and Hill’s conviction was not against the
manifest weight of the evidence. The credibility of the witnesses and the weight to be
given to their testimony were matters for the judge, as the trier of fact, to determine. The
State’s evidence, if believed, supported a reasonable conclusion that Hill initiated both
the verbal and physical altercation between her and Hughes. Although there was
conflicting evidence regarding who had started the physical altercation, we cannot say
that the trial court lost its way when it found Hill guilty of assault.
{¶ 36} Hill’s third and fourth assignments of error are overruled.
B. Disorderly Conduct
{¶ 37} Hill’s first and second assignments of error claim that her conviction for
disorderly conduct was against the manifest weight of the evidence and based on
insufficient evidence. She argues that there was insufficient evidence to support her
conviction, because the State failed to establish that she was intoxicated. The State
responds that it was not required to prove intoxication, because Hill was charged under
R.C. 2917.11(A), which does not require proof of intoxication, and not R.C. 2917.11(B),
which does.
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{¶ 38} The complaint, prepared by Officer Miller, alleged that Hill violated “R.C.
2917.11” by “making unreasonable noise and offensively course utterance after being
warned to cease and desist the behavior.” That allegation coincides with R.C.
2917.11(A)(2), which states:
(A) No person shall recklessly cause inconvenience, annoyance, or alarm
to another by doing any of the following: * * * (2) Making unreasonable noise
or an offensively coarse utterance, gesture, or display or communicating
unwarranted and grossly abusive language to any person.
In contrast, R.C. 2917.11(B)(1) provides:
No person, while voluntarily intoxicated, shall do either of the following: (1)
In a public place or in the presence of two or more persons, engage in
conduct likely to be offensive or to cause inconvenience, annoyance, or
alarm to persons of ordinary sensibilities, which conduct the offender, if the
offender were not intoxicated, should know is likely to have that effect on
others[.]
{¶ 39} R.C. 2917.11(E) defines when disorderly conduct is a fourth-degree
misdemeanor, as opposed to a minor misdemeanor. Disorderly conduct is a fourth-
degree misdemeanor when the “offender persists in disorderly conduct after reasonable
warning or request to desist.” R.C. 2917.11(E)(3)(a).
{¶ 40} Two police reports were attached to the complaint. Officer Miller’s police
report identified the disorderly conduct offense as a violation of “R.C. 2917.11A2;” the
report made no mention of intoxication. Officer Hesler’s report indicated that Hill
appeared to be under the influence of either drugs or alcohol or both when Officer Miller
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asked Hill for her identification. He wrote that Hill’s eyes were bloodshot and watery and
that there was “a moderate odor of an alcoholic beverage coming from her person.”
However, Officer Hesler did not file the criminal complaint, and his report did not cite the
charge against Hill.
{¶ 41} At trial, the State did not assert that Hill had been intoxicated, and it
presented no evidence on intoxication. Officer Miller testified at trial that he knocked on
Hill’s apartment door to investigate the report of a fight. Hill answered the door, and the
scratches on her face made it obvious to the officer that Hill had been involved in an
altercation. Miller stated that he asked Hill to get her identification, and Hill became
upset when Miller would not allow her to shut the door. Officer Miller testified that Hill
claimed that he could not enter her house without a warrant and that Hill “kept yelling at
me, talking over me, so I could not get a word in edgewise.” Officer Miller stated that
Officer Hesler stepped in and tried to speak with Hill, but Hill “refused to listen to him,
continued to yell and scream.”
{¶ 42} Officer Miller testified that Hill was loud and was yelling obscenities. He
stated that there were children “all around the place,” both in Hill’s residence and “out
behind us,” and that Hill could be heard by the children. Both Officers Miller and Hesler
asked Hill to calm down, but she would not. About one to two minutes elapsed from the
time that Miller first asked for Hill’s identification and Hill’s arrest.
{¶ 43} Hill testified on her own behalf that, after the fight, police officers “just
walked right in my apartment” while she was changing her clothes. Hill stated that they
did not knock, and she did not answer the door. Hill stated that she asked the officers to
step outside and allow her to shut the door, but the officers refused. Hill testified that
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she was never asked for her identification.
{¶ 44} In closing arguments, the prosecutor argued:
As to the disorderly conduct, there is uncontroverted evidence that the
defendant was yelling obscenities repeatedly no less than six requests from
the officers to stop and there were children in ear range of this and we know
from all the witnesses of course there were children out there, there was a
playground nearby and a kindergarten event had just out [sic].
Understandably, they don’t deserve to be listening to that.
At the conclusion of the trial, the trial court orally found Hill guilty of disorderly conduct.
{¶ 45} The trial court ordered and reviewed a presentence investigation report
before sentencing. The report did not indicate the statutory section under which Hill was
convicted of disorderly conduct. In fact, it indicated that Hill had been convicted of
assault and obstructing official business, not assault and disorderly conduct. The
report’s summary of the underlying events for obstructing official business stated, in part:
“Police reported a moderate odor of an alcoholic beverage coming from the defendant’s
person when she spoke in their direction. The defendant reported[ly] kept screaming
and would not retrieve her identification.” The presentence investigation report
referenced Officer Hesler’s police report.
{¶ 46} The trial court’s January 29, 2015 docket entry (the final appealable
judgment entry) identified the disorderly conduct charge as “disorderly conduct M4/Intox,”
in violation of R.C. 2917.11(B)(1)(E), the voluntary intoxication subsection. The
February 2 entry (albeit void) also identified that charge as disorderly conduct, in violation
of “R.C. 2917.11(B)(1)(e).”
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{¶ 47} Our review of the record reveals that Hill was charged by complaint with
disorderly conduct, in violation of R.C. 2917.11(A)(2), which does not require proof of
intoxication. The State tried her for a violation of R.C. 2917.11(A)(2), and presented
evidence to support a conviction under that provision. Officer Miller’s testimony
constituted sufficient evidence to support a conviction under R.C. 2917.11(A)(2); the State
was not required to present proof of intoxication to support a disorderly conduct charge
under that provision. Accordingly, we conclude that the State presented sufficient
evidence of disorderly conduct, as charged. In addition, we cannot conclude that the
trial court lost its way when it found, at the conclusion of trial, that Hill was guilty of
disorderly conduct; the trial court’s verdict was not against the manifest weight of the
evidence. Hill’s first and second assignments of error are overruled.
{¶ 48} Despite the trial court’s oral verdict, the judgment entry indicated that Hill
was convicted of violating R.C. 2917.11(B)(1), the voluntary intoxication subsection. A
trial court speaks through its journal entries. E.g., State v. Boles, 2d Dist. Montgomery
No. 23037, 2011-Ohio-3720, ¶ 34, citing Hairston v. Seidner, 88 Ohio St. 3d 57, 58, 723
N.E.2d 575 (2000). Thus, while the complaint charged a violation of R.C. 2917.11(A)(2)
and Hill was found guilty of that charge, Hill was convicted of violating R.C. 2917.11(B)(1)
in the trial court’s judgment entry.
{¶ 49} In general, absent a negotiated plea agreement or evidence of a lesser
included offense, a defendant cannot be convicted of an offense for which he or she has
not been charged. If a judgment entry misidentifies the offense due to a clerical error,
that error may be corrected pursuant to Crim.R. 36. See, e.g., State v. Burton, 12th Dist.
Clermont No. CA2013-09-071, 2014-Ohio-1692, ¶ 14-15 (allowing correction of the
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judgment entry where it was “apparent on the record that the reference to R.C.
2907.02(A)(1)(2) in the judgment entry on verdict was a clerical mistake”); State v. Evans,
10th Dist. Franklin No. 13AP-939, 2014-Ohio-2081, ¶ 14 (analyzing case as one for
attempted patient abuse, the offense to which defendant pled, and encouraging trial court
to “correct the clerical mistakes in the record to reflect the proper offense of which
[defendant] was convicted.”); State v. Kirk, 1st Dist. Hamilton No. C-130223, 2014-Ohio-
891 (case remanded for a nunc pro tunc entry correcting the judgment entry to reflect that
defendant pled guilty to the offense of burglary, not robbery).
{¶ 50} Crim.R. 36 provides that “[c]lerical 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.” As we stated in our discussion of nunc pro tunc
entries, “[c]lerical errors subject to correction by the court include a mistake or omission
that is mechanical in nature and apparent on the record that does not involve a legal
decision or judgment. Corrections are proper to make the record reflect what the court
actually decided and not what the court might or should have decided or what the court
intended to decide.” (Citations omitted.) Burton at ¶ 14.
{¶ 51} In this case, it is obvious that the trial court’s judgment of conviction under
R.C. 2917.11(B)(1) was erroneous, but it is not obvious that the trial court’s statutory
reference in the judgment entry was a clerical error. The presentence investigation
report mentions Hill’s having an odor of an alcoholic beverage, and it cited Officer Hesler’s
police report (attached to the complaint), which included facts indicating that Hill was
intoxicated when Officers Hill and Hesler attempted to get identification from her at her
apartment. It is not apparent from the record whether the trial court believed, at
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sentencing, that Hill had been found guilty under R.C. 2917.11(A)(2) or R.C.
2917.11(B)(1).
{¶ 52} Accordingly, Hill’s conviction for disorderly conduct in violation of R.C.
2917.11(B)(1) must be reversed, and the matter must be remanded for sentencing on
disorderly conduct, in violation of R.C. 2917.11(A)(2).
III. Conclusion
{¶ 53} The trial court’s judgment will be affirmed in part, reversed in part, and
remanded for further proceedings. Specifically, Hill’s conviction for assault will be
affirmed, her conviction for disorderly conduct in violation of R.C. 2917.11(B)(1) will be
reversed, and the matter will be remanded for sentencing on disorderly conduct in
violation of R.C. 2917.11(A)(2).
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FAIN, J. and HALL, J., concur.
Copies mailed to:
Christine L. Burk
Maria L. Rabold
Hon. Robert W. Rettich, III