State v. Burns
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The Supreme Court reversed the portion of the judgment of the court of appeals affirming Appellant's conviction on count twenty-nine of the indictment and vacated that conviction and affirmed the portion of the judgment affirming Defendant's convictions on counts eleven, twenty, forty-five, forty-six, and fifty-five of the indictment, holding that, based on State v. Smith, 194 N.E.3d 197 (Ohio 2022), the adult court lacked subject matter jurisdiction over count twenty-nine.
In Smith, the Supreme Court held that a finding of probable cause is a jurisdictional prerequisite under Ohio Rev. Code 215.212 to transferring a child to adult court for prosecution. In the instant case, Appellant argued that the adult court lacked subject-matter jurisdiction over count twenty-nine of the indictment because the juvenile court did not find probable cause to believe that Appellant had committed the act charged in that count. The Supreme Court agreed and reversed the court of appeals' decision affirming Appellant's conviction on count twenty-nine and otherwise affirmed, holding that Appellant's remaining claims of error were without merit.
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