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Case Background
Then 15 year old Tyshawn Barker was taken into custody by police near midnight for questioning in regard to two fatal shootings. Another suspect had implicated Barker in those crimes during questioning earlier in the evening.
The police detectives electronically recorded Barker’s interrogation. Before questioning Barker, the police read him his Miranda rights.…
When the Supreme Court of Ohio stopped hearing new cases on August 31, 2016, the blog published this list of submitted cases it has previewed and analyzed. All of these must be decided before Justices Lanzinger and Pfeifer retire at year’s end. There are other submitted cases; this is just the blog’s list:
In re:…
Former Hamilton County Juvenile Court Judge Tracie Hunter should know more than most about Ohio voting rights. When she ran for juvenile court in November of 2010, she appeared to have lost to her opponent John Williams by about 2800 votes. But then it came to light that certain provisional ballots had not been counted…
Update: On September 20, 2017, the Supreme Court of Ohio denied Prade’s motion for a writ of prohibition, in which Prade had argued the Ninth District Court of Appeals lacked jurisdiction to review and overturn a finding of actual innocence by then-Summit County Common Pleas Court Judge Judy Hunter, who has since retired. On September…
Update: On September 20, 2017, the Supreme Court of Ohio denied Prade’s motion for a writ of prohibition, in which Prade had argued the Ninth District Court of Appeals lacked jurisdiction to review and overturn a finding of actual innocence by then-Summit County Common Pleas Court Judge Judy Hunter, who has since retired. On September…
Date Case was remanded from Supreme Court of Ohio: April 28, 2015
Final Resolution of this case: September 30, 2016
Case Background
David Maistros, law director and prosecutor of Twinsburg in Summit County, charged Nicholas Castagnola with selling alcohol to minors. Two months later, Maistros found his and his wife’s cars had been “egged,” and…
The state is back in federal court seeking to resume executions in Ohio. Ronald Phillips is set to be executed January 12, 2017, for the rape and murder of his girlfriend’s three year old daughter in 1993.
Ohio uses lethal injection as its method of execution. The last person to be put to death in…
Update: Read what happened on remand here.
On September 14, 2016, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in State v. Anderson, 2016-Ohio-5791. In a fractured plurality opinion written by Justice Kennedy, the court held that there is no constitutional violation when the state seeks to retry an incarcerated defendant after…
Further Update: On December 12, 2016, the U.S. Supreme Court denied Broom”s petition.
Update: Read the state’s brief in opposition here.
In State v. Broom, 2016-Ohio-1028, the Supreme Court of Ohio decided in a 4-3 opinion written by Justice Judy Lanzinger that a second attempt to carry out the death penalty after the first…
Update: On October 27, 2016, by a vote of 4-3, this case was dismissed as improvidently accepted. Voting to dismiss were Chief Justice O’Connor, and Justices O’Donnell, Lanzinger and O’Neill. Justices Pfeifer, Kennedy, and French dissented.
“I’m just looking for any basis at all to say that the social worker is a fiduciary in this…
