APPEAL
FROM JUDGMENT ENTERED IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS COUNTY OF
SUMMIT, OHIO CASE No. CR-1990-05-0801
ANTHONY MAURICE WALKER, pro se, Appellant.
SHERRI
BEVAN WALSH, Prosecuting Attorney, and JACQUENETTE S. CORGAN,
Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for Appellee.
DECISION AND JOURNAL ENTRY
JULIE
A. SCHAFER, Judge
{¶1}
Defendant-Appellant, Anthony Maurice Walker, appeals the
October 12, 2017 journal entry from the Summit County Court
of Common Pleas denying his motions for sentencing. This
Court affirms.
I.
{¶2}
On July 24, 1990, Walker retracted his not guilty plea, and
entered a plea of guilty to one count of aggravated murder
with a death penalty specification, one count of rape, and
one count of aggravated burglary. Walker waived his right to
have his case presented to a three judge panel, and the
matter proceeded to a hearing before a single judge to
determine the imposition of the sentence for the capital
offense of aggravate murder. The trial court found that the
mitigating factors outweighed the aggravating circumstances
and did not impose the death penalty.
{¶3}
In the sentencing entry of July 24, 1990, the trial court
ordered that Walker
be committed to the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and
Correction for the REMAINDER OF HIS NATURAL LIFE, with parole
eligibility after Thirty (30) Full Years, pursuant to [R.C.]
2929.03(D)(3)(b), for punishment of the crime of AGGRAVATED
MURDER, [R.C.] 2903.01(B), a special felony; for an
indeterminate period of not less than Ten (10) Years and not
more than the maximum of Twenty-five (25) Years for
punishment of the crime of RAPE, [R.C.] 2907.02(A)(2), an
aggravated felony of the first (1st) degree, and for an
indeterminate period of not less than Ten (10) Years and not
more than the maximum of Twenty-five (25) Years for
punishment of the crime of AGGRAVATED BURGLARY, [R.C.]
2911.11(A)(3), an aggravated felony of the first (1st) degree
* * *.
The
trial court ordered that the sentence imposed on each of the
three counts be served concurrently. Walker did not appeal
his conviction.
{¶4}
Walker continued to serve his sentence and nearly
twenty-seven years passed before Walker started filing a
series of motions with the trial court. Walker has appealed
the trial court's journal entry dated October 10, 2017,
which was filed on October 12, 2017. This journal entry
denied Walker's two motions for sentencing-one filed
August 25, 2017, and the other filed September 12, 2017-but
did not address any of Walker's other motions.
{¶5}
Walker now appeals from that order raising three assignments
of error for our review. For ease of analysis, we elect to
review Walker's assignments of error out of order.
II.
Assignment
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