[Until this opinion appears in the Ohio Official Reports advance sheets, it may be cited as State
v. Hand, Slip Opinion No. 2016-Ohio-8355.]




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                          SLIP OPINION NO. 2016-OHIO-8355
              THE STATE OF OHIO, APPELLEE, v. HAND, APPELLANT.
  [Until this opinion appears in the Ohio Official Reports advance sheets, it
       may be cited as State v. Hand, Slip Opinion No. 2016-Ohio-8355.]
Appeal dismissed as having been improvidently accepted.
(No. 2015-0652—Submitted December 13, 2016—Decided December 27, 2016.)
            APPEAL from the Court of Appeals for Montgomery County,
                                         No. 25840.
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        {¶ 1} The cause is dismissed as having been improvidently accepted.
        O’CONNOR, C.J., and PFEIFER, O’DONNELL, LANZINGER, FRENCH, and
O’NEILL, JJ., concur.
        KENNEDY, J., dissents.
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        Mathias H. Heck Jr., Montgomery County Prosecuting Attorney, and
Andrew T. French, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for appellee.
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       Timothy Young, Ohio Public Defender, and Sheryl Trzaska, Assistant
Public Defender, for appellant.
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