State v. Chapman

This case raises the question of whether an unarmed ac*42complice to an armed robbery, convicted of violating R.C. 2911.01, may be sentenced to a mandatory three-year term under the enhancement provision of R.C. 2929.71. This court previously held that unarmed accomplices were subject to R.C. 2929.71 as it read prior to July 1,1983. State v. Moore (1985), 16 Ohio St. 3d 30. We now reach the same conclusion with regard to the current version of R.C. 2929.71.

R.C. 2929.71(A) provides:

“The court shall impose a term of actual incarceration of three years in addition to imposing a life sentence…