LISBON — The resentencing of a woman charged with escape, car theft and felonious assault in Lisbon in 2023 was canceled Thursday pending an appeal to the Ohio Supreme Court.

Ashley Croley 39, Youngstown, had her case remanded back to Columbiana County Common Pleas Court for resentencing after the 7th District Court of Appeals ruled the trial court miscalculated the maximum sentence, saying the maximum sentence should have been 11 years, not 12 years.

According to a motion for continuance filed by Croley’s trial defense attorney James Wise, the Ohio public defender indicated a motion to appeal to the Ohio Supreme Court was being prepared.

Common Pleas Court Judge Scott Washam granted the continuance and canceled the hearing, noting that any further hearing will be scheduled after the conclusion of the appeal to the Supreme Court of Ohio.

Previously, Washam sentenced Croley to 24 months for third-degree felony escape, 12 months for fourth-degree felony grand theft of a motor vehicle and six years for the felonious assault, a second-degree felony, with the first two counts to be served concurrently (at the same time), but consecutive to the felonious assault charge, for a total of eight years. A third-degree felony vehicular assault charge was merged with the felonious assault for sentencing.

According to law, the felonious assault charge is a second-degree felony and falls under requirements for an indefinite term which call 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.

On the sentencing judgment entry, the maximum was listed as 12 years, which the appellate court said did not comply with sentencing law.

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.