Child rapist loses sentencing appeal

COLUMBUS

A man serving a life prison sentence for raping a girl when she was 8 and 9 years old has lost in his bid to compel Judge R. Scott Krichbaum of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court to conduct a new sentencing hearing.

On Wednesday, the Ohio Supreme Court rejected a claim by Clemente Alicia, an inmate at Richland Correctional Institution in Mansfield, that Judge Krichbaum’s February 1999 sentencing order was flawed because it didn’t state the manner of his conviction.

The state’s top court ruled unanimously that the judgment entry of sentencing specified that Alicia, of Campbell, was convicted of rape in a jury trial and that no new entry or hearing will be necessary.

In its decision, the top court upheld a 7th District Court of Appeals ruling in this case.