[Until this opinion appears in the Ohio Official Reports advance sheets, it may be cited as State
v. Alley, Slip Opinion No. 

.]




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                          SLIP OPINION NO. 

              THE STATE OF OHIO, APPELLEE, v. ALLEY, APPELLANT.
  [Until this opinion appears in the Ohio Official Reports advance sheets, it
        may be cited as State v. Alley, Slip Opinion No. 

.]
Appeal dismissed as having been improvidently accepted.
 (No. 2024-0288—Submitted December 6, 2024—Decided December 10, 2024.)
              APPEAL from the Court of Appeals for Sandusky County,
                              No. S-23-006, 

.
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        The below judgment entry of the court was joined by KENNEDY, C.J., and
FISCHER, DEWINE, DONNELLY, STEWART, and DETERS, JJ. BRUNNER, J., dissented
and would hold the cause for the decision in 2023-1058, State v. Smith.


        {¶ 1} This cause is dismissed as having been improvidently accepted.
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        Beth A. Tischler, Sandusky County Prosecuting Attorney, for appellee.
        Stahl & Stephenson and Michael H. Stahl, for appellant, Matthew Alley.
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