Ritchie v. State, Ca2008-07-073 (4-20-2009)

OPINION

{¶ 1} Petitioner-appellant, James Wayne Ritchie, appeals the decision of the Clermont County Court of Common Pleas to deny his petition and motion challenging his sexual offender reclassification.

{¶ 2} Appellant pled guilty in 1989 to one count of rape and one count of gross sexual imposition and was sentenced to prison. Appellant was classified as a sexual predator in 2001 and subsequently released from prison. In 2007, appellant received notification of a reclassification as a Tier III sexual offender as the result of the Ohio General Assembly's passage of Senate Bill 10 amendments…