State v. Zucal

The issue presented in this appeal concerns the delay in execution of appellant’s mandatory ten-day jail sentence. Specifically, the issue before us is whether a six-year delay3 between the imposition of a mandatory jail sentence resulting from a conviction of a drunk driving offense and the execution of said *218sentence is an excessive and unreasonable lapse of time between sentencing and execution of sentence.

This issue was previously before this court, as recently as two years ago, in N. Canton v. Hutchinson (1996), 75 Ohio St.3d 112, 661 N.E.2d 1000. In that case appellee, Nancy Hutchinson,…