State v. Chandler

{¶ 1} These consolidated discretionary appeals raise the issue of whether a person can be subject to the special penalty statute applicable to a major drug offender for a first-degree felony drug conviction when the substance offered as crack cocaine contains no detectable amount of the drug.

{¶ 2} Appellee Phillip Bledsoe was the subject of an undercover investigation conducted by the Massillon City Police Department and the FBI. During the investigation, a confidential informant was used to make a number of controlled buys of crack cocaine from Bledsoe. The last of these transactions was to…