State v. Jones (Slip Opinion)

{¶ 1} This discretionary appeal by the state of Ohio asks this court to clarify the standard governing claims of prejudice based on preindictment delay. The Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas dismissed charges of rape and kidnapping against appellee, Demetrius Jones, after determining that the state’s indictment of Jones one day before the expiration of the applicable 20-year statute of limitations constituted unconstitutional preindictment delay. The Eighth District Court of Appeals affirmed that dismissal. Because the court of appeals used an improper standard in its analysis, however,…