The latest Featured Decision video features the Supreme Court of Ohio decision to uphold the nearly 30-year prison sentence imposed on a former high-school teacher who groomed two 17-year-old students to engage in sexual activity with him and threatened their expulsion if they reported him.

A Supreme Court majority affirmed Anthony Polizzi’s 358-month prison sentence imposed by the Lake County Common Pleas Court. Polizzi argued that the total amount, or aggregate, of his prison term did not fit the seriousness of his crime or the harm to his victims.

The Court explained in the decision that Ohio criminal sentencing law gives a trial court discretion to consider the total length of a prison sentence, but does not require it to do so when deciding whether to impose consecutive sentences.