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On January 23, 2019, Chief Justice Maureen O’Connor convened a task force to examine the Ohio bail system. Read about that from Court News Ohio here. In light of this initiative, I have asked prominent Cincinnati criminal defense attorney Bill Gallagher to write a guest post on the…
Update: On December 17, 2019, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in this case. Read the analysis here.
“So we are going to throw out our ordinary rules of procedure and allow the state to play ‘gotcha’ in standing cases, but no other cases?”
Justice DeWine, to the Prosecutor
“Procedurally, when…
Update: On May 2, 2019, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in this case. Read the analysis here.
“So, what the state wants us to say is it is reasonable that after a police officer hears gunshots fired,to stop basically anyone in the area?”
Justice Stewart to the Prosecutor
“Are you…
Update: On May 15, 2019, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in this case. Read the analysis here.
“Other than ruling in favor of the state, what rule are you asking us to write today? What do you want us to say? That the advisement is always sufficient, that the advisement…
Update: On December 17, 2019, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in this case. Read the analysis here.
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On January 30, 2019, the Supreme Court of Ohio will hear oral argument in State of Ohio v. Justin Wintermeyer, 2017-1135. At issue in the…
On October 3, 2018, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in State v. Vega, 2018-Ohio-4002. In a unanimous opinion written by Justice O’Donnell, in which Judge Marilyn Zayas of the First District Court of Appeals sat for the recused Justice DeGenaro, and Chief Justice O’Connor concurred in judgment only, the court…
On September 20, 2018, by a 4-3 vote, the Supreme Court of Ohio dismissed In re L.G. Slip Opinion No. 2018-Ohio-3750, as improvidently accepted. The issue in the case was whether a minor’s rights against self-incrimination were violated when he was questioned in the presence of police officers by a school resource supervisor, who was…
Case Background
Demetrius Jackson was arrested for raping 14-year-old C.H. While Jackson was in the county jail, he was interviewed by a Cuyahoga County Division of Children and Family Services social worker, who did not give Jackson the Miranda warnings. Jackson told the social worker that he had had consensual oral sex with C.H., and…
