[Cite as State v. Lupardus, 123 Ohio St.3d 1216, 2009-Ohio-5860.]




            THE STATE OF OHIO, APPELLEE, v. LUPARDUS, APPELLANT.
       [Cite as State v. Lupardus, 123 Ohio St.3d 1216, 2009-Ohio-5860.]
Appeal dismissed as improvidently accepted.
(No. 2008-2487 — Submitted October 20, 2009 — Decided November 10, 2009.)
    APPEAL from the Court of Appeals for Washington County, No. 08CA31,
                                    2008-Ohio-5960.
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        {¶ 1} The cause is dismissed, sua sponte, as having been improvidently
accepted.
        PFEIFER, LUNDBERG STRATTON, O’CONNOR, and O’DONNELL, JJ., concur.
        MOYER, C.J., and LANZINGER and CUPP, JJ., would affirm the judgment of
the court of appeals on the authority of State v. Geeslin, 116 Ohio St.3d 252,
2007-Ohio-5239, 878 N.E.2d 1.
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        Roland W. Riggs III, Marietta Law Director, and Mark C. Sleeper,
Assistant Law Director, for appellee.
        Timothy Young, Ohio Public Defender, and Sarah M. Schregardus,
Assistant Public Defender, for appellant.
        Richard Cordray, Attorney General, Benjamin C. Mizer, Solicitor General,
Kimberly A. Olson, Deputy Solicitor, and Jeffrey R. Loeser, Assistant Solicitor,
urging affirmance for amicus curiae Ohio Attorney General.
        D. Timothy Huey; and Lyons & Lyons Co., L.P.A., and Jeffrey C.
Meadows, urging reversal for amicus curiae Ohio Association of Criminal
Defense Lawyers.
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