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Ohio Rev. Code § 2152.14 (2026)

Motion to invoke adult portion of dispositional sentence

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October 12, 2016
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House Bill 158 - 131st General Assembly
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(A)(1) The director of youth services may request the prosecuting attorney of the county in which is located the juvenile court that imposed a serious youthful offender dispositional sentence upon a person under section 2152.121 or 2152.13 of the Revised Code to file a motion with that juvenile court to invoke the adult portion of the dispositional sentence if all of the following apply to the person:

(a) The person is at least fourteen years of age.

(b) The person is in the institutional custody, or an escapee from the custody, of the department of youth services.

(c) The person is serving the juvenile portion of the serious youthful offender dispositional sentence.

(2) The motion shall state that there is reasonable cause to believe that either of the following misconduct has occurred and shall state that at least one incident of misconduct of that nature occurred after the person reached fourteen years of age:

(a) The person committed an act that is a violation of the rules of the institution and that could be charged as any felony or as a first degree misdemeanor offense of violence if committed by an adult.

(b) The person has engaged in conduct that creates a substantial risk to the safety or security of the institution, the community, or the victim.

(B) If a person is at least fourteen years of age, is serving the juvenile portion of a serious youthful offender dispositional sentence imposed under section 2152.121 or 2152.13 of the Revised Code, and is on parole or aftercare from a department of youth services facility, or on community control, the director of youth services, the juvenile court that imposed the serious youthful offender dispositional sentence on the person, or the probation department supervising the person may request the prosecuting attorney of the county in which is located the juvenile court to file a motion with the juvenile court to invoke the adult portion of the dispositional sentence. The prosecuting attorney may file a motion to invoke the adult portion of the dispositional sentence even if no request is made. The motion shall state that there is reasonable cause to believe that either of the following occurred and shall state that at least one incident of misconduct of that nature occurred after the person reached fourteen years of age:

(1) The person committed an act that is a violation of the conditions of supervision and that could be charged as any felony or as a first degree misdemeanor offense of violence if committed by an adult.

(2) The person has engaged in conduct that creates a substantial risk to the safety or security of the community or of the victim.

(C) If the prosecuting attorney declines a request to file a motion that was made by the department of youth services or the supervising probation department under division (A) or (B) of this section or fails to act on a request made under either division by the department within a reasonable time, the department of youth services or the supervising probation department may file a motion of the type described in division (A) or (B) of this section with the juvenile court to invoke the adult portion of the serious youthful offender dispositional sentence. If the prosecuting attorney declines a request to file a motion that was made by the juvenile court under division (B) of this section or fails to act on a request from the court under that division within a reasonable time, the juvenile court may hold the hearing described in division (D) of this section on its own motion.

(D) Upon the filing of a motion described in division (A), (B), or (C) of this section, the juvenile court may hold a hearing to determine whether to invoke the adult portion of a person's serious juvenile offender dispositional sentence. The juvenile court shall not invoke the adult portion of the dispositional sentence without a hearing. At the hearing the person who is the subject of the serious youthful offender disposition has the right to be present, to receive notice of the grounds upon which the adult sentence portion is sought to be invoked, to be represented by counsel including counsel appointed under Juvenile Rule 4(A), to be advised on the procedures and protections set forth in the Juvenile Rules, and to present evidence on the person's own behalf, including evidence that the person has a mental illness or intellectual disability. The person may not waive the right to counsel. The hearing shall be open to the public. If the person presents evidence that the person has a mental illness or intellectual disability, the juvenile court shall consider that evidence in determining whether to invoke the adult portion of the serious youthful offender dispositional sentence.

(E)(1) The juvenile court may invoke the adult portion of a person's serious youthful offender dispositional sentence if the juvenile court finds all of the following on the record by clear and convincing evidence:

(a) The person is serving the juvenile portion of a serious youthful offender dispositional sentence.

(b) The person is at least fourteen years of age and has been admitted to a department of youth services facility, or criminal charges are pending against the person.

(c) The person engaged in the conduct or acts charged under division (A), (B), or (C) of this section, and the person's conduct demonstrates that the person is unlikely to be rehabilitated during the remaining period of juvenile jurisdiction.

(2) The court may modify the adult sentence the court invokes to consist of any lesser prison term that could be imposed for the offense and, in addition to the prison term or in lieu of the prison term if the prison term was not mandatory, any community control sanction that the offender was eligible to receive at sentencing.

(F) If a juvenile court issues an order invoking the adult portion of a serious youthful offender dispositional sentence under division (E) of this section, the juvenile portion of the dispositional sentence shall terminate, and the department of youth services shall transfer the person to the department of rehabilitation and correction or place the person under another sanction imposed as part of the sentence. The juvenile court shall state in its order the total number of days that the person has been held in detention or in a facility operated by, or under contract with, the department of youth services under the juvenile portion of the dispositional sentence. The time the person must serve on a prison term imposed under the adult portion of the dispositional sentence shall be reduced by the total number of days specified in the order plus any additional days the person is held in a juvenile facility or in detention after the order is issued and before the person is transferred to the custody of the department of rehabilitation and correction. In no case shall the total prison term as calculated under this division exceed the maximum prison term available for an adult who is convicted of violating the same sections of the Revised Code.

Any community control imposed as part of the adult sentence or as a condition of a judicial release from prison shall be under the supervision of the entity that provides adult probation services in the county. Any post-release control imposed after the offender otherwise is released from prison shall be supervised by the adult parole authority.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 41 cases (17 in the last 5 years), 2001–2026 · leading case: In re J.V., 2012 Ohio 4961 (Ohio 2012).
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In re J.V., 2012 Ohio 4961 (Ohio 2012). · cites it 52× “The first proposition of law states, “The invocation of an adult prison sentence upon a juvenile, pursuant to R.C. 2152.14, violates the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution and Article I, Sections 10 and 16 of the Ohio Constitution.”
In re C.P., 2012 Ohio 1446 (Ohio 2012). · cites it 12× “86’s automatic imposition of an adult punishment— lifetime reporting and notification—stands in contrast to the R.C. 2152.14 process for invoking the adult portion of the sentence in an SYO disposition.”
In re D.J., 2018 Ohio 569 (Ohio Ct. App. 2018). · cites it 23× “{¶ 7} Section 2152.14 does not provide any guidance for how the director of DYS should decide whether to request that the prosecuting attorney move for the juvenile court to invoke the adult part of a dispositional sentence.”
State v. D.H., 901 N.E.2d 209 (Ohio 2009). · cites it 7× “R.C. 2152.14. {¶ 3} A juvenile who is tried as a serious youthful offender is entitled to a jury trial pursuant to R.”
State v. Aalim (Slip Opinion), 2016 Ohio 8278 (Ohio 2016). · cites it 4× “13 of the Revised Code, and whose adult portion of the dispositional sentence is invoked pursuant to section 2152.14 of the Revised Code.” Under this exception, the person will no longer be considered a child in future cases in which a complaint is filed against that person.”
In re J.P., 2022 Ohio 2102 (Ohio Ct. App. 2022). · cites it 17× “argues the state failed to meet the requirements of R.”
In re J.C., 2021 Ohio 4313 (Ohio Ct. App. 2021). · cites it 16× “claims that R.C. 2152.14, which provides the juvenile court’s authority to impose the stayed SYO sentence, is presented in the present tense, and therefore, the trial court must only consider conduct and the juvenile’s status contemporaneous with the hearing.”
In re M.B., 2018 Ohio 4334 (Ohio Ct. App. 2018). · cites it 8× “’s serious youth offender sentence pursuant to R.C. 2152.14(A). He raises five assignments of error for review: 1.”
State v. Nicholas, 2022 Ohio 4276 (Ohio 2022). · cites it 2× “The General Assembly has defined “serious youthful offender” as a person eligible for a mandatory or discretionary serious-youthful- offender disposition “who is not transferred to adult court under a mandatory or discretionary transfer.”
In re Anderson, 748 N.E.2d 67 (Ohio 2001). “R.C. 2152.14(A). However, because this law is not yet in effect, we leave for another day the question of whether provisions such as these convert some juvenile proceedings into criminal actions.”
In re M.M., 2018 Ohio 1110 (Ohio Ct. App. 2018). · cites it 13× “’s adult sentence after making the necessary findings under R.C. 2152.14. (Doc. No. 119). The trial court modified the adult sentence imposed in its December 11, 2012 judgment entry of disposition and sentenced M.”
In re J.S., 2013 Ohio 1721 (Ohio 2013). · cites it 2× “The procedure for invoking the adult portion of an SYO sentence is provided in R.C. 2152.14: (A)(1) The director of youth services may request the prosecuting attorney of the county in which is located the juvenile court that imposed a serious youthful offender dispositional…”
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— Ohio Rev. Code § 2152.14(A) — 11 cases
In re D.J., 2018 Ohio 569 (Ohio Ct. App. 2018). “{¶ 7} Section 2152.14 does not provide any guidance for how the director of DYS should decide whether to request that the prosecuting attorney move for the juvenile court to invoke the adult part of a dispositional sentence.”
In re Anderson, 748 N.E.2d 67 (Ohio 2001). “R.C. 2152.14(A). However, because this law is not yet in effect, we leave for another day the question of whether provisions such as these convert some juvenile proceedings into criminal actions.”
In re Anderson, 2001 Ohio 131 (Ohio 2001).
In re T.D.R., 2015 Ohio 3541 (Ohio Ct. App. 2015).
In re M.B., 2018 Ohio 4334 (Ohio Ct. App. 2018). “’s serious youth offender sentence pursuant to R.C. 2152.14(A). He raises five assignments of error for review: 1.”
— Ohio Rev. Code § 2152.14(A)(1) — 2 cases
In re T.T., 2021 Ohio 759 (Ohio Ct. App. 2021).
In re D.H., 2014 Ohio 5140 (Ohio Ct. App. 2014).
— Ohio Rev. Code § 2152.14(A)(1)(a) — 1 case
In re T.S., 2021 Ohio 638 (Ohio Ct. App. 2021).
— Ohio Rev. Code § 2152.14(A)(1)(b) — 1 case
In re J.C., 2021 Ohio 4313 (Ohio Ct. App. 2021). “claims that R.C. 2152.14, which provides the juvenile court’s authority to impose the stayed SYO sentence, is presented in the present tense, and therefore, the trial court must only consider conduct and the juvenile’s status contemporaneous with the hearing.”
— Ohio Rev. Code § 2152.14(A)(2) — 1 case
In re D.J., 2018 Ohio 569 (Ohio Ct. App. 2018). “{¶ 7} Section 2152.14 does not provide any guidance for how the director of DYS should decide whether to request that the prosecuting attorney move for the juvenile court to invoke the adult part of a dispositional sentence.”
— Ohio Rev. Code § 2152.14(A)(2)(a) — 9 cases
In re C.P., 2012 Ohio 1446 (Ohio 2012). “86’s automatic imposition of an adult punishment— lifetime reporting and notification—stands in contrast to the R.C. 2152.14 process for invoking the adult portion of the sentence in an SYO disposition.”
In re J.V., 2012 Ohio 4961 (Ohio 2012). “The first proposition of law states, “The invocation of an adult prison sentence upon a juvenile, pursuant to R.C. 2152.14, violates the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution and Article I, Sections 10 and 16 of the Ohio Constitution.”
State v. D.H., 901 N.E.2d 209 (Ohio 2009). “R.C. 2152.14. {¶ 3} A juvenile who is tried as a serious youthful offender is entitled to a jury trial pursuant to R.”
In re M.B., 2018 Ohio 4334 (Ohio Ct. App. 2018). “’s serious youth offender sentence pursuant to R.C. 2152.14(A). He raises five assignments of error for review: 1.”
In re J.P., 2022 Ohio 2102 (Ohio Ct. App. 2022). “argues the state failed to meet the requirements of R.”
— Ohio Rev. Code § 2152.14(A)(2)(b) — 9 cases
In re J.V., 2012 Ohio 4961 (Ohio 2012). “The first proposition of law states, “The invocation of an adult prison sentence upon a juvenile, pursuant to R.C. 2152.14, violates the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution and Article I, Sections 10 and 16 of the Ohio Constitution.”
State v. D.H., 901 N.E.2d 209 (Ohio 2009). “R.C. 2152.14. {¶ 3} A juvenile who is tried as a serious youthful offender is entitled to a jury trial pursuant to R.”
In re D.J., 2018 Ohio 569 (Ohio Ct. App. 2018). “{¶ 7} Section 2152.14 does not provide any guidance for how the director of DYS should decide whether to request that the prosecuting attorney move for the juvenile court to invoke the adult part of a dispositional sentence.”
In re M.B., 2018 Ohio 4334 (Ohio Ct. App. 2018). “’s serious youth offender sentence pursuant to R.C. 2152.14(A). He raises five assignments of error for review: 1.”
In re J.P., 2022 Ohio 2102 (Ohio Ct. App. 2022). “argues the state failed to meet the requirements of R.”
— Ohio Rev. Code § 2152.14(B) — 3 cases
In re J.C., 2021 Ohio 4313 (Ohio Ct. App. 2021). “claims that R.C. 2152.14, which provides the juvenile court’s authority to impose the stayed SYO sentence, is presented in the present tense, and therefore, the trial court must only consider conduct and the juvenile’s status contemporaneous with the hearing.”
State v. Williams, 2023 Ohio 4505 (Ohio Ct. App. 2023).
In re T.M., 2025 Ohio 1132 (Ohio Ct. App. 2025).
— Ohio Rev. Code § 2152.14(B)(1) — 1 case
State v. Williams, 2023 Ohio 4505 (Ohio Ct. App. 2023).
— Ohio Rev. Code § 2152.14(B)(1)(b) — 1 case
In re J.C., 2021 Ohio 4313 (Ohio Ct. App. 2021). “claims that R.C. 2152.14, which provides the juvenile court’s authority to impose the stayed SYO sentence, is presented in the present tense, and therefore, the trial court must only consider conduct and the juvenile’s status contemporaneous with the hearing.”
— Ohio Rev. Code § 2152.14(B)(2) — 1 case
State v. Williams, 2023 Ohio 4505 (Ohio Ct. App. 2023).
— Ohio Rev. Code § 2152.14(C) — 1 case
In re T.M., 2025 Ohio 1132 (Ohio Ct. App. 2025).
— Ohio Rev. Code § 2152.14(D) — 7 cases
In re J.V., 2012 Ohio 4961 (Ohio 2012). “The first proposition of law states, “The invocation of an adult prison sentence upon a juvenile, pursuant to R.C. 2152.14, violates the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution and Article I, Sections 10 and 16 of the Ohio Constitution.”
In re C.P., 2012 Ohio 1446 (Ohio 2012). “86’s automatic imposition of an adult punishment— lifetime reporting and notification—stands in contrast to the R.C. 2152.14 process for invoking the adult portion of the sentence in an SYO disposition.”
State v. D.H., 901 N.E.2d 209 (Ohio 2009). “R.C. 2152.14. {¶ 3} A juvenile who is tried as a serious youthful offender is entitled to a jury trial pursuant to R.”
In re J.C., 2021 Ohio 4313 (Ohio Ct. App. 2021). “claims that R.C. 2152.14, which provides the juvenile court’s authority to impose the stayed SYO sentence, is presented in the present tense, and therefore, the trial court must only consider conduct and the juvenile’s status contemporaneous with the hearing.”
In re J.P., 2022 Ohio 2102 (Ohio Ct. App. 2022). “argues the state failed to meet the requirements of R.”
— Ohio Rev. Code § 2152.14(E) — 20 cases
In re J.V., 2012 Ohio 4961 (Ohio 2012). “The first proposition of law states, “The invocation of an adult prison sentence upon a juvenile, pursuant to R.C. 2152.14, violates the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution and Article I, Sections 10 and 16 of the Ohio Constitution.”
In re J.P., 2022 Ohio 2102 (Ohio Ct. App. 2022). “argues the state failed to meet the requirements of R.”
State v. Nicholas, 2022 Ohio 4276 (Ohio 2022). “The General Assembly has defined “serious youthful offender” as a person eligible for a mandatory or discretionary serious-youthful- offender disposition “who is not transferred to adult court under a mandatory or discretionary transfer.”
State v. D.H., 901 N.E.2d 209 (Ohio 2009). “R.C. 2152.14. {¶ 3} A juvenile who is tried as a serious youthful offender is entitled to a jury trial pursuant to R.”
In re D.J., 2018 Ohio 569 (Ohio Ct. App. 2018). “{¶ 7} Section 2152.14 does not provide any guidance for how the director of DYS should decide whether to request that the prosecuting attorney move for the juvenile court to invoke the adult part of a dispositional sentence.”
— Ohio Rev. Code § 2152.14(E)(1) — 15 cases
In re J.V., 2012 Ohio 4961 (Ohio 2012). “The first proposition of law states, “The invocation of an adult prison sentence upon a juvenile, pursuant to R.C. 2152.14, violates the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution and Article I, Sections 10 and 16 of the Ohio Constitution.”
In re C.P., 2012 Ohio 1446 (Ohio 2012). “86’s automatic imposition of an adult punishment— lifetime reporting and notification—stands in contrast to the R.C. 2152.14 process for invoking the adult portion of the sentence in an SYO disposition.”
In re D.J., 2018 Ohio 569 (Ohio Ct. App. 2018). “{¶ 7} Section 2152.14 does not provide any guidance for how the director of DYS should decide whether to request that the prosecuting attorney move for the juvenile court to invoke the adult part of a dispositional sentence.”
In re M.B., 2018 Ohio 4334 (Ohio Ct. App. 2018). “’s serious youth offender sentence pursuant to R.C. 2152.14(A). He raises five assignments of error for review: 1.”
In re N.G., 2014 Ohio 3190 (Ohio Ct. App. 2014).
— Ohio Rev. Code § 2152.14(E)(1)(a) — 3 cases
In re J.P., 2022 Ohio 2102 (Ohio Ct. App. 2022). “argues the state failed to meet the requirements of R.”
In re T.M., 2025 Ohio 1132 (Ohio Ct. App. 2025).
State v. Williams, 2023 Ohio 4505 (Ohio Ct. App. 2023).
— Ohio Rev. Code § 2152.14(E)(1)(b) — 6 cases
In re J.C., 2021 Ohio 4313 (Ohio Ct. App. 2021). “claims that R.C. 2152.14, which provides the juvenile court’s authority to impose the stayed SYO sentence, is presented in the present tense, and therefore, the trial court must only consider conduct and the juvenile’s status contemporaneous with the hearing.”
In re J.P., 2022 Ohio 2102 (Ohio Ct. App. 2022). “argues the state failed to meet the requirements of R.”
In re T.M., 2025 Ohio 1132 (Ohio Ct. App. 2025).
In re S.I.G., 2023 Ohio 2912 (Ohio Ct. App. 2023).
In re T.T., 2021 Ohio 759 (Ohio Ct. App. 2021).
— Ohio Rev. Code § 2152.14(E)(1)(c) — 8 cases
In re D.J., 2018 Ohio 569 (Ohio Ct. App. 2018). “{¶ 7} Section 2152.14 does not provide any guidance for how the director of DYS should decide whether to request that the prosecuting attorney move for the juvenile court to invoke the adult part of a dispositional sentence.”
In re M.B., 2018 Ohio 4334 (Ohio Ct. App. 2018). “’s serious youth offender sentence pursuant to R.C. 2152.14(A). He raises five assignments of error for review: 1.”
In re J.C., 2021 Ohio 4313 (Ohio Ct. App. 2021). “claims that R.C. 2152.14, which provides the juvenile court’s authority to impose the stayed SYO sentence, is presented in the present tense, and therefore, the trial court must only consider conduct and the juvenile’s status contemporaneous with the hearing.”
In re M.B, 2018 Ohio 3311 (Ohio Ct. App. 2018).
State v. Williams, 2023 Ohio 4505 (Ohio Ct. App. 2023).
— Ohio Rev. Code § 2152.14(E)(2) — 8 cases
In re J.V., 2012 Ohio 4961 (Ohio 2012). “The first proposition of law states, “The invocation of an adult prison sentence upon a juvenile, pursuant to R.C. 2152.14, violates the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution and Article I, Sections 10 and 16 of the Ohio Constitution.”
In re C.P., 2012 Ohio 1446 (Ohio 2012). “86’s automatic imposition of an adult punishment— lifetime reporting and notification—stands in contrast to the R.C. 2152.14 process for invoking the adult portion of the sentence in an SYO disposition.”
In re D.J., 2018 Ohio 569 (Ohio Ct. App. 2018). “{¶ 7} Section 2152.14 does not provide any guidance for how the director of DYS should decide whether to request that the prosecuting attorney move for the juvenile court to invoke the adult part of a dispositional sentence.”
State v. D.H., 901 N.E.2d 209 (Ohio 2009). “R.C. 2152.14. {¶ 3} A juvenile who is tried as a serious youthful offender is entitled to a jury trial pursuant to R.”
In re D.F., 2018 Ohio 1792 (Ohio Ct. App. 2018).
— Ohio Rev. Code § 2152.14(F) — 4 cases
State v. E.T., 2025 Ohio 1558 (Ohio Ct. App. 2025).
In re K.M.P., 2019 Ohio 4551 (Ohio Ct. App. 2019).
State v. E.T., 2025 Ohio 4456 (Ohio Ct. App. 2025).
In re D.H., 2014 Ohio 5140 (Ohio Ct. App. 2014).
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