
    The State of Ohio, Appellee, v. Pierce, Appellant.
    [Cite as State v. Pierce, 120 Ohio St.3d 321, 2008-Ohio-6248.]
    
      (No. 2007-1605
    Submitted October 14, 2008
    Decided December 9, 2008.)
    William D. Mason, Cuyahoga County Prosecuting Attorney, and Mary H. McGrath, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for appellee.
    Robert L. Tobik, Cuyahoga County Public Defender, and Cullen Sweeney, Assistant Public Defender, for appellant.
   {¶ 1} The judgment of the court of appeals is affirmed on the authority of State v. Ferguson, 120 Ohio St.3d 7, 2008-Ohio-4824, 896 N.E.2d 110.

Moyer, C.J., and O’Connor, O’Donnell, and Cupp, JJ., concur.

Pfeifer, Lundberg Stratton, and Lanzinger, JJ., dissent for the reasons stated in the dissenting opinion of Lanzinger, J., in State v. Ferguson.  