The opinion
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v. Brown, Slip Opinion No. 2017-Ohio-8370.]
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SLIP OPINION NO. 2017-OHIO-8370
THE STATE OF OHIO, APPELLEE, v. BROWN, APPELLANT.
[Until this opinion appears in the Ohio Official Reports advance sheets, it
may be cited as State v. Brown, Slip Opinion No. 2017-Ohio-8370.]
Certification of conflict dismissed as having been improvidently certified.
(No. 2016-1652—Submitted June 21, 2017—Decided November 1, 2017.)
CERTIFIED by the Court of Appeals for Richland County,
No. 16CA15, 2016-Ohio-5893.
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{¶ 1} The certification of conflict is dismissed, sua sponte, as having been
improvidently certified.
O’CONNOR, C.J., and O’DONNELL, KENNEDY, FRENCH, O’NEILL, FISCHER,
and DEWINE, JJ., concur.
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Michael DeWine, Attorney General, Eric E. Murphy, State Solicitor, and
Michael J. Hendershot, Chief Deputy Solicitor; and Gary D. Bishop, Richland
SUPREME COURT OF OHIO
County Prosecuting Attorney, and Jodie M. Schumacher, Assistant Prosecuting
Attorney, for appellee.
Timothy Young, Ohio Public Defender, and Stephen P. Hardwick, Assistant
Public Defender, for appellant.
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