State v. Purnell

Gorman, Judge.

{¶ 1} The defendant-appellant, Clinton Purnell, appeals from the trial court’s postsentence order increasing the amount of restitution to be paid to the victim from $7,500 to $38,232.74. In his two assignments of error, appellant contends that (1) the trial court did not have jurisdiction to increase the amount of restitution after the judgment of conviction had been journalized and (2) the trial court abused its discretion when it modified the amount of restitution without sufficient evidence of economic loss to the victim. Because R.C. 2929.18(A)(1) requires the trial court to…