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“So what did the officer testify he was searching for?”
“Would you agree that theoretically an officer’s probable cause could evolve? It could change?”
Justice French, to Vega’s counsel.
On June 12, 2018, the Supreme Court of Ohio heard oral argument in the case of State of Ohio…
Update: This case was remanded back to the Eighth District Court of Appeals to decide the unaddressed assignments of error. On August 30, 2018, the appeals court overruled both of the remaining assignments of error and upheld the conviction and sentence. Read more here.
On June 7, 2018, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down…
Read an analysis of the oral argument here.
On June 12, 2018, the Supreme Court of Ohio will hear oral argument in the case of State of Ohio v. Edwin A. Vega, 2017-0618. The main issue in the case is whether a police officer may, during a search for raw marijuana after an initial…
Update: On November 5, 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court denied Mason’s cert. petition
On April 18, 2018, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in State v. Mason, 2018-Ohio-1462. In a unanimous opinion written by Justice Fischer, with two appellate judges subbing for Justices O’Donnell and O’Neill, the Court upheld…
Update: Read about the disposition of this case here.
Read an analysis of the argument here.
On April 24, 2018, the Supreme Court of Ohio will hear oral argument in the case of State of Ohio v. James L. Dunson, 2017-0186. At issue in this case is whether, in a post-conviction motion to…
Joshua Polk, then a student at Whetstone High in Columbus, left his book bag on the school bus. An initial search of the bag pursuant to an unwritten school policy didn’t turn up anything but papers identifying Polk as the owner of the bag, but a later, more thorough search in the principal’s office turned…
Update: On August 15, 2018, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in this case. Read the analysis here.
On February 27, 2018, the Supreme Court of Ohio heard oral argument in State of Ohio v. Anthony Carnes, 2017-0087. At issue in this case is whether a juvenile adjudication can be…
Remember Alva Campbell? He was a decrepit 69-year-old inmate on death row, who was supposed to be executed on November 15, 2017. Campbell committed heinous crimes, no question about it. But he had also been in miserable health, using a walker to get around, apparently suffering from lung cancer, COPD, respiratory failure, and prostate cancer.…
Update: On June 7, 2018, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in this case. Read the analysis here.
“Your argument is if the police pay an informant, they control him. Isn’t the parallel if the state pays an employee they control him, also?”
Justice Fischer, to the Assistant Prosecutor
On February…
