State v. Bates

{¶ 1} In this certified-conflict case and discretionary appeal, we hold that the trial court has the authority to order a prison sentence to be served consecutively to a prison sentence previously imposed on the same offender by another Ohio court. The court of appeals held accordingly, and we affirm.

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{¶ 2} Sometime before 2005, the Montgomery County Common Pleas Court sentenced Robert Bates to a ten-year sentence of incarceration. State v. Bates, Miami App. No. 06-CA-08, 2006-Ohio-7086, 2006 WL 3849078, ¶ 2.

{¶ 3} In 2005, Bates pleaded no contest to other felonies, this time in the Miami…