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Update: On May 25, 2017, the Supreme Court of Ohio granted reconsideration in this case, and reversed it. Read the analysis of the new merit decision here.
“The mandatory-transfer statutes preclude a juvenile court judge from taking any individual circumstances into account before automatically sending a child who is 16 or older to adult court.…
Update: On May 25, 2017, the Supreme Court of Ohio granted reconsideration in this case, and reversed it. Read the analysis of the new merit decision here.
“The mandatory-transfer statutes preclude a juvenile court judge from taking any individual circumstances into account before automatically sending a child who is 16 or older to adult court.…
Update: read what happened on remand here.
“The court in Graham was not barring a terminology-“life without parole”-but rather a punishment that removes a juvenile from society without a meaningful chance to demonstrate rehabilitation and obtain release.”
Justice Paul Pfeifer, majority opinion.
On December 22, 2016, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit…
“Are we to value speed over certainly? Of all cases that cry out for certainty, it is cases that result in the extinguishing of a human life.”
Chief Justice O’Connor, majority opinion
On December 21, 2016, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in State v. Noling, 2016-Ohio-8252. In an opinion written…
“It’s déjà vu all over again.” Yogi Berra.
On December 14, 2016, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in Simpkins v. Grace Brethren Church 2016-Ohio-8118. At issue in the case was an as-applied constitutional challenge to the caps on noneconomic tort damages set out in R.C. 2315.18(B). In another fractured…
On December 12, 2016, by a vote of 6-2, the U.S. Supreme Court turned down the cert. petition filed by Romell Broom in Broom v. Ohio. Justices Breyer and Kagan voted to grant the petition. Broom sought to overturn State v. Broom, 2016-Ohio-1028, a 4-3 decision in which the Supreme Court of Ohio held…
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 September 15, 2016, Hand was resentenced by Montgomery County Court of Common Please Judge Dennis J. Langer to a non-mandatory three year term of incarceration, to be served consecutively with the three year mandatory firearm specification, for a total sentence of six years.
“Juvenile law and criminal law are not synonymous.” From the…
