State v. Hazlett

McGrath, Judge.

{¶ 1} Defendant-appellant, James L. Hazlett, appeals from the judgment of the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas denying his petition to contest his sex-offender reclassification under Ohio’s Adam Walsh Act (“the AWA”).

{¶ 2} A Franklin County grand jury indicted appellant on January 4, 1980, on one count of aggravated burglary and one count of rape. Appellant entered a guilty plea to rape on May 28, 1980, and a nolle prosequi was entered on the aggravated-burglary charge. Thereafter, appellant was sentenced to a 6-to-25-year term of incarceration. On June 27, 1986, appellant…