COURT OF APPEALS OF OHIO, EIGHTH DISTRICT
                       COUNTY OF CUYAHOGA
                   Nos. 74827, 74828 and 74829
                                    ACCELERATED DOCKET
STATE OF OHIO                 :
                              :       JOURNAL ENTRY
          Plaintiff-appellee  :
                              :           AND
     vs.                      :
                              :         OPINION
VANCE ROBINSON                :
                              :        PER CURIAM
          Defendant-appellant :
                              :
                              :
DATE OF ANNOUNCEMENT          :       DECEMBER 3, 1998
 OF DECISION                  :
                              :
CHARACTER OF PROCEEDINGS      :    Criminal appeal from
                              :    Court of  Common Pleas
                              :    Case No. CR-337001 [74827],
                              :    CR-338341 [74828], and
                              :    CR-338975 [74829]
                              :
JUDGMENT                      :    AFFIRMED
DATE OF JOURNALIZATION        :
APPEARANCES:
For plaintiff-appellee:            For defendant-appellant:
WILLIAM R. CAINE, ESQ.             LARRY W. ZUKERMAN, ESQ.
L. CHRISTOPHER FREY, ESQ.          S. MICHAEL LEAR, ESQ.
Assistant County Prosecutors       2000 East Ninth Street, #700
8th Floor, Justice Center          Cleveland, OH 44115
1200 Ontario Street
Cleveland, OH 44113
PER CURIAM:
     This case  came to be  heard upon  the accelerated  calendar
pursuant to App.R.  11.1 and Local Rule  25, the record from  the
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Cuyahoga County  Court of Common Pleas,  the briefs and the  oral
arguments of counsel.  Defendant Vance Robinson pleaded guilty in
three separate  cases to individual counts  of grand theft.   The
court  imposed a  two-year term  of incarceration  in each  case,
ordering those terms of incarceration to be served consecutively.
Defendant was indicted for the three different offenses before July
1, 1996, but sentenced on all three cases after July 1, 1996.  He
claims  the court  should  have given  him  the option  of  being
sentenced under Senate Bill 2.
     The assigned error is overruled on authority of State v. Rush
(1998), 83 Ohio St.3d 53.
     Judgment 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 Court of  Common Pleas 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.
                              JOHN T. PATTON, PRESIDING JUDGE
                              KENNETH A. ROCCO, JUDGE
                              JAMES D. SWEENEY, 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
.