State v. Ingels
State v. Ingels
Opinion
[Cite as State v. Ingels,
2014-Ohio-363.]
IN THE COURT OF APPEALS FIRST APPELLATE DISTRICT OF OHIO HAMILTON COUNTY, OHIO
STATE OF OHIO, : APPEAL NO. C-130311 TRIAL NOS. B-9802147 Plaintiff-Appellee, : B-9800321
vs. : O P I N I O N.
EARL INGELS, :
Defendant-Appellant. :
Criminal Appeal From: Hamilton County Court of Common Pleas
Judgment Appealed From Is: Affirmed as Modified and Cause Remanded
Date of Judgment Entry on Appeal: February 5, 2014
Joseph T. Deters, Hamilton County Prosecuting Attorney, and Philip R. Cummings, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for Plaintiff-Appellee,
Earl Ingles, pro se.
Please note: we have removed this case from the accelerated calendar. OHIO FIRST DISTRICT COURT OF APPEALS
Per Curiam.
{¶1} Defendant-appellant Earl Ingles appeals the Hamilton County
Common Pleas Court’s judgment denying his petition under R.C. 2953.21 et seq. for
postconviction relief. We affirm the court’s judgment as modified, but remand for
the proper imposition of postrelease control.
{¶2} Ingles was convicted in 1998 of five counts of kidnapping, two counts
of gross sexual imposition, and a single count of attempted kidnapping. His
convictions were affirmed in direct appeals to this court and to the Ohio Supreme
Court. State v. Ingles, 1st Dist. Hamilton Nos. C-980673 and C-980674 (Dec. 3,
1999), appeal not accepted,
99 Ohio St.3d 1539,
2003-Ohio-4671,
795 N.E.2d 679.
He also unsuccessfully challenged his convictions in postconviction motions filed in
2005, 2009, 2011, 2012, and 2013. See State v. Ingles, 1st Dist. Hamilton No. C-
120238,
2013-Ohio-1460, appeal not accepted,
137 Ohio St.3d 1411, 2013-
Ohio- 5096, 998 N.E.2d 510; State v. Ingles, 1st Dist. Hamilton No. C-120052 (Dec. 7,
2012), appeal not accepted,
134 Ohio St.3d 1509,
2013-Ohio-1123,
984 N.E.2d 1102;
State v. Ingles, 1st Dist. Hamilton No. C-100297,
2011-Ohio-2901, appeal not
accepted,
130 Ohio St.3d 1418,
2011-Ohio-5605,
956 N.E.2d 309.
{¶3} No jurisdiction to entertain postconviction petition. In this appeal, Ingles advances four assignments of error that, distilled to their essence,
challenge the denial of his 2013 postconviction petition. We address together and
overrule the assignments of error, because the common pleas court had no
jurisdiction to entertain the petition.
{¶4} Ingles filed his motion well after the time prescribed by R.C.
2953.21(A)(2) had expired. And the record does not demonstrate either that he was
unavoidably prevented from discovering the facts underlying his claims, or that his
claims were predicated upon a new or retrospectively applicable right recognized by
the United States Supreme Court since the time for filing a postconviction petition
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had expired. Thus, because Ingles satisfied neither the time strictures of R.C.
2953.21(A)(2) nor the jurisdictional requirements of R.C. 2953.23(A), the
postconviction statutes did not confer upon the common pleas court jurisdiction to
entertain Ingles’s postconviction claims on their merits.
{¶5} Jurisdiction to correct void sentences. A court nevertheless retains jurisdiction to correct a void judgment. State ex rel. Cruzado v. Zaleski,
111 Ohio St.3d 353,
2006-Ohio-5795,
856 N.E.2d 263, ¶ 18-19. In our decision affirming
the dismissal of Ingles’s 2012 postconviction petition, we held that Ingles’s
convictions had not been rendered void by the deficiencies in the judgments of
conviction or the sentence-enhancement errors that he again claimed in his 2013
petition. Ingles, 1st Dist. Hamilton No. C-120238,
2013-Ohio-1460. But Ingles’s
sentences are void to the extent that he was not adequately notified concerning
postrelease control.
{¶6} The postrelease-control statutes in effect in 1998, when Ingles was
sentenced, required that, with respect to each offense, a sentencing court notify the
offender, both at the sentencing hearing and in the judgment of conviction, of the
length and mandatory or discretionary nature of postrelease control, of the
consequences of violating postrelease control, and of the length of confinement that
could be imposed for a postrelease-control violation. See former R.C. 2929.14(F),
2929.19(B)(3)(c) and (d), and 2967.28(B) and (C); State v. Ketterer,
126 Ohio St.3d 448,
2010-Ohio-3831,
935 N.E.2d 9, ¶ 77-79; State v. Bloomer,
122 Ohio St.3d 200,
2009-Ohio-2462,
909 N.E.2d 1254, ¶ 69; State v. Jordan,
104 Ohio St.3d 21, 2004-
Ohio-6085,
817 N.E.2d 864, paragraph one of the syllabus. Accord State v. Smith,
1st Dist. Hamilton No. C-120163,
2012-Ohio-5965, ¶ 10-11. To the extent that
postrelease control is not properly imposed, a sentence is void, and the offending
portion of the sentence is subject to review and correction at any time. State v.
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Fischer,
128 Ohio St.3d 92,
2010-Ohio-6238,
942 N.E.2d 332, paragraph one of the
syllabus and ¶ 27. Accord Smith at ¶ 19.
{¶7} In sentencing Ingles, the trial court did not mention postrelease
control, nor did the court incorporate postrelease-control notification in the
judgments of conviction. To the extent Ingles’s sentences were not imposed in
conformity with the statutory mandates concerning postrelease control, they are
void. And because Ingles’s 2013 postconviction petition brought the matter to the
common pleas court’s attention, the court had jurisdiction to review and correct the
offending portions of his sentences.
{¶8} Affirmed as modified, but remanded. Ingles’s postconviction petition was thus subject to dismissal, because the postconviction statutes did not
confer on the common pleas court jurisdiction to entertain the petition on its merits.
Accordingly, upon the authority of App.R. 12(A)(1)(a), we modify the judgment
appealed from to reflect the dismissal of the petition. And we affirm the judgment as
modified.
{¶9} But Ingles’s sentences are void to the extent that he was not notified
concerning postrelease control. We, therefore, remand this cause for correction of
the offending portions of Ingles’s sentences in accordance with the law and this
opinion.
Judgment accordingly.
CUNNINGHAM, P.J., DINKELACKER and FISCHER, JJ.
Please note:
The court has recorded its own entry on the date of the release of this opinion.
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