LISBON — The resentencing of a woman charged with escape, car theft and felonious assault for a 2023 incident in Lisbon will be rescheduled after technical difficulty delayed the proceedings Friday.

Ashley Croley, 39, Youngstown, was scheduled to appear via video conferencing equipment at 9 a.m., but there were some issues getting the video feed from the prison, so Columbiana County Common Pleas Court Judge Scott Washam decided the hearing would have to be reset.

Washam originally sentenced Croley to a total of eight years in prison, with six years for felonious assault, a second-degree felony, plus an additional two years for the third-degree felony escape and fourth-degree felony grand theft of a motor vehicle. A third-degree felony vehicular assault charge was merged with the felonious assault for sentencing.

According to law, the felonious assault charge as second-degree felony falls under requirements for an indefinite term which calls for a maximum term that is half of the minimum plus the minimum. In this case, there were also consecutive terms, so the number of years added to the minimum is added to the grand total.

The sentence for the felonious assault should have added three years to the grand total for a maximum of 11 years: two years plus the six years plus three years.

Washam had said the maximum would be 12 years.

The Seventh District Court of Appeals said that didn’t comply with the sentencing law, basically ruling that the maximum had been miscalculated and should have been 11 years, ordering the case back to Common Pleas Court for resentencing. Croley’s motion for reconsideration of her conviction and her appeal to the Ohio Supreme Court were recently denied.

The charges against Croley stemmed from an incident Aug. 5, 2023 when she was serving some time at the Eastern Ohio Correction Center, a community-based facility for women, located in Lisbon, for a probation violation and climbed the fence and escaped.

She ended up in the East of Chicago Pizza restaurant parking lot on Market Street, just up from the EOCC and was in the process of stealing a car in the parking lot when the owner came outside, ran over and tried to stop her from stealing the car. Croley put the car in reverse, causing the owner to get caught in the door, then she ran over his foot. She left the county in the car, but was later caught.

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