State v. Anderson (Slip Opinion)

I. Introduction

{¶ 1} In this discretionary appeal, we consider whether the Seventh District Court of Appeals erred in affirming the trial court’s decision to deny the motion filed by appellant, Christopher L. Anderson, to dismiss his indictment. Anderson filed the motion to dismiss after the state gave notice of its intent to retry him following a series of mistrials that were declared in his case during the 14 years since his arrest.

{¶ 2} Anderson advances a single proposition of law:

The Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and Ohio Constitution, Article I, Sections 1, 2, 10, and…