COURT OF APPEALS OF OHIO, EIGHTH DISTRICT
                       COUNTY OF CUYAHOGA
                 NOS. 72344, 72345, 72346, 72347
STATE OF OHIO                 :         JOURNAL ENTRY
                              :              AND
          Plaintiff-appellee  :            OPINION
                              :
       -vs-                   :
                              :
NICHOLAS MILLER               :
                              :
          Defendant-appellant :
DATE OF ANNOUNCEMENT
    OF DECISION:                   JUNE 25, 1998
CHARACTER OF PROCEEDING:           Criminal appeal from the
                                   Court of Common Pleas
                                   Case Nos. CR-207363B,
                                   CR-206741, CR-207097 and
                                   CR-207788
JUDGMENT:                          Affirmed.
DATE OF JOURNALIZATION:
APPEARANCES:
For Plaintiff-Appellee:            STEPHANIE TUBBS JONES, ESQ.
                                   CUYAHOGA COUNTY PROSECUTOR
                                   BY: RONALD JAMES, ESQ.
                                       ARTHUR A. ELKINS, ESQ.
                                   ASSISTANT COUNTY PROSECUTORS
                                   1200 Ontario Street
                                   Cleveland, Ohio  44113
For Defendant-Appellant:           DAVID L. DOUGHTEN, ESQ.
                                   4403 St. Clair Avenue
                                   Cleveland, Ohio 44103
DYKE, J.:
     Appellant, Nicholas Miller  is appealing his conviction  for
four counts  of aggravated  robbery, R.C.  2911.01, with  firearm
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specifications.  For the following reasons, we affirm.
     Appellant was indicted in 1986, and sentenced on October  6,
1986.  On March 17, 1997, appellant filed a Motion to Advise  and
Sentence the Defendant According to the Law Effect (sic) on July 1,
1996. Appellant asserted that he should be sentenced in accordance
with Am.Sub.S.B. No. 2 as amended by Am.Sub.S.B. No. 269.
     Appellant's sole assignment of error states:
     THE TRIAL COURT ERRED IN DENYING  DEFENDANT-APPELLANT'S
     MOTION TO ADVISE AND SENTENCE THE DEFENDANT ACCORDING TO
     THE LAW IN EFFECT ON JULY 1, 1996.
     Am.Sub.S.B. No. 2 does not apply to persons convicted and sen-
tenced prior to July 1, 1996.  State ex rel. Maynard v.  Corrigan
(1998), 81 Ohio St.3d 332.   Appellant was sentenced in 1986,  so
Am.Sub.S.B. No. 2 does not  apply to appellant.  The trial  court
properly denied appellant's motion.
     Accordingly, appellant's assignment of error is overruled.
     The decision of the trial court is affirmed.
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     It is ordered  that appellee recover of appellant its  costs
herein taxed.
     The Court finds there were reasonable grounds for this appeal.
     It is ordered that a special mandate issue out of this Court
directing  the Common  Pleas Court  to carry  this judgment  into
execution.  The defendant's conviction having been affirmed,  any
bail pending  appeal is terminated.   Case remanded to the  trial
court for execution of sentence.
     A certified copy of this entry shall constitute the  mandate
pursuant to Rule 27 of the Rules of Appellate Procedure.
PORTER, P.J.,    AND
CORRIGAN, J., CONCUR.
                                             ANN DYKE
                                              JUDGE
N.B. This entry is an announcement of the court's decision.   See
App. R. 22(B), 22(D) and 26(A); Loc.App.R. 27.  This decision will
be journalized and will become the judgment and order of the court
pursuant to App. R. 22(E) unless a motion for reconsideration with
supporting brief, per App.R. 26(A), is filed within ten (10) days
of the announcement of the court's decision.  The time period for
review by the Supreme Court of  Ohio shall begin to run upon  the
journalization of  this court's announcement  of decision by  the
.