State v. Bollar
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The Supreme Court held that an offender must receive separate prison terms for multiple firearm specifications when the criminal offenses to which those firearm specifications were attached had been merged as allied offenses.
Appellant pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter, felonious assault, and having weapons while under a disability. The trial court merged the involuntary-manslaughter and felonious-assault counts but imposed a three-year prison term for each of the firearm specifications linked to those counts. The court of appeals affirmed. The Supreme Court affirmed, holding that the plain language of Ohio Rev. Code 2929.14(B)(1)(g) requires that offenders like Appellant receive separate prison terms for convictions on multiple firearm specifications.
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