[This decision has been published in Ohio Official Reports at 92 Ohio St.3d 1213.]

THE STATE OF OHIO, APPELLANT, v. SINGH, APPELLEE. [Cite as State v. Singh, 2001-Ohio-126.]

Appeal dismissed as improvidently allowed. (No. 00-1536—Submitted May 15, 2001—Decided June 27, 2001.)

APPEAL from the Court of Appeals for Lake County, No. 98-L-090. __________________ {¶ 1} The cause is dismissed, sua sponte, as having been improvidently allowed.

MOYER, C.J., DOUGLAS, RESNICK, F.E. SWEENEY, PFEIFER, COOK and LUNDBERG STRATTON, JJ., concur. __________________ Charles E. Coulson, Lake County Prosecuting Attorney, Vincent A. Culotta, Chief Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, and Brian L. Summers, Supervisor, Appellate Division, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for appellant.

Morganstern, MacAdams & DeVito Co., L.P.A., and Michael A. Partlow, for appellee.

Betty D. Montgomery, Attorney General, David M. Gormley, State Solicitor, and Michael R. Gladman, Assistant Solicitor, urging reversal for amicus curiae, Attorney General of Ohio. __________________