State v. Woods (Slip Opinion)

[Until this opinion appears in the Ohio Official Reports advance sheets, it may be cited as State v. Woods, Slip Opinion No. 2016-Ohio-8465.]

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SLIP OPINION NO. 2016-OHIO-8465 THE STATE OF OHIO, APPELLANT, v. WOODS, APPELLEE. [Until this opinion appears in the Ohio Official Reports advance sheets, it may be cited as State v. Woods, Slip Opinion No. 2016-Ohio-8465.] Appeal dismissed as having been improvidently accepted. (No. 2014-0940—Submitted December 20, 2016—Decided December 30, 2016.) APPEAL from the Court of Appeals for Cuyahoga County, No. 99630, 2014-Ohio-1722. _______________ {¶ 1} This cause is dismissed as having been improvidently accepted. O’CONNOR, C.J., and PFEIFER, LANZINGER, FRENCH, and O’NEILL, JJ., concur. O’DONNELL, J., dissents for the reasons stated in his dissent in State v. Walker, ___ Ohio St.3d ___, 2016-Ohio-8295, ___ N.E.3d ___. KENNEDY, J., dissents. _________________

SUPREME COURT OF OHIO

Timothy J. McGinty, Cuyahoga County Prosecuting Attorney, and Christopher D. Schroeder and Kevin Filiatraut, Assistant Prosecuting Attorneys, for appellant. _________________