State v. Newberry

Stephenson, Presiding Judge.

This is a consolidated appeal taken from judgments of conviction and sentence entered by the Common Pleas Court of Ross County, Ohio, sentencing Brenda Newberry and Linda Mick, defendants below and appellants herein, to suspended prison terms and five years of probation for theft in violation of R.C. 2913.02. Appellants jointly assign the following error for review:

“Admission to a prosecutor’s diversion program authorized by R.C. 2935.36 is a benefit entitled to protection by due process under the Ohio Constitution, Article I, Section 16, and the Fourteenth…