State v. Qualls

{¶ 1} The defendant-appellant in this case was notified of postrelease control at his 2002 sentencing hearing, but the language indicating that notification had been made was inadvertently omitted from the sentencing entry that resulted from that hearing. When the omission came to light, the trial court, in 2010, corrected the sentencing entry through a nunc pro tunc entry that stated that the notification had been made and denied the defendant’s request for a new sentencing hearing. The appellate court upheld the trial court’s actions as a permissible use of a nunc pro tunc entry. For the…