State v. Boos, Unpublished Decision (2-21-2001)

I respectfully disagree with the majority's conclusion that the trial court made the requisite findings on the record when it sentenced Defendant to the maximum prison term and consecutive sentences. Such findings must be made on the record at the sentencing hearing. See Statev. Riggs (Oct. 11, 2000), Summit App. No. 19846, unreported, at 7-9 (Whitmore, J., dissenting). Moreover, in its recent decision in Woods v.Telb (2000), 89 Ohio St.3d 504, paragraph two of the syllabus, the Ohio Supreme Court mandated that a trial court "inform the defendant atsentencing or at the time of a plea hearing…