State v. Smith

Stephenson, Judge.

This is an appeal from a part of a judgment entered by Athens County Municipal Court finding Andrew Smith, after a no contest plea, guilty of a drug paraphernalia offense proscribed by R.C. 2925.14(C)(1), followed by a sentence wherein the court refused to impose a driver’s license suspension pursuant to R.C. 2925.14(H) upon due process grounds. The following error is assigned:

“The trial court judge erred when he failed to sentence defendant to a mandatory six-month license suspension after defendant pled no contest to the charge of drug paraphernalia, R.C. 2925.14(C)(1).”

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