[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.]




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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
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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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