State v. Evans

{¶ 1} The state of Ohio appeals from a decision of the Cuyahoga County Court of Appeals, which vacated and remanded the entire sentence imposed on George Evans, holding that the trial court erred in sentencing him for a repeat violent offender specification because it failed to make the required findings before imposing a sanction on that specification. The question presented in this appeal concerns whether an appellate court should vacate and remand the entire criminal sentence when it determines that a sentencing error has occurred with respect to only one of several imposed as part of a…