State v. Jackson (Slip Opinion)

{¶ 1} In this appeal, we address the right of offenders who have violated community-control sanctions to speak on their own behalf at community-control-revocation hearings. We hold that a trial court must afford an offender an opportunity for allocution at a community-control-revocation hearing before imposing a sentence for violating the conditions of community control. Accordingly, we affirm the judgment of the First District Court of Appeals.

Relevant Background

(¶ 2} Appellee, Dominic Jackson, pled guilty to a fourth-degree-felony charge of receiving stolen property, specifically a firearm,…