State v. Butcher

Without citation to any legal authority whatsoever, the state maintains that when a criminal defendant is being held in jail as a result of having been charged with the commission of separate and distinct felonies, the triple-count provision of R.C. 2945.71(E) is not applicable. Presumably, the state seeks to invoke the rule contained in State v. Ladd (1978), 56 Ohio St. 2d 197 [10 O.O.3d 363], syllabus, and State v. MacDonald (1976), 48 Ohio St. 2d 66 [2 O.O.3d 219], paragraph one of the syllabus, that “R.C. 2945.71(D) is applicable only to those defendants held in jail in lieu of bail…