State v. Taylor

{¶ 1} In this appeal, we are asked to answer the following question, certified to this court as a conflict by the Second Appellate District: “Whether a conviction for an attempted drug offense that would have been, if successfully completed, a first-degree felony, but which becomes a second-degree felony by virtue of the fact that it is merely an attempt to commit an offense, is subject to the mandatory prison term provisions in R.C. 2925.11.”

{¶ 2} Defendant-appellant, Jomo K. Taylor, was indicted on two counts of drug-related felonies. Taylor entered a plea agreement with the state, wherein…