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“By any fair reading of Crim.R. 11(C)(2), the potential R.C. 2929.141(A) sentence was part of the ‘maximum penalty involved’ in this case.”
Justice French, lead opinion
“…The lead opinion’s analysis cannot be squared with the language of the postrelease-control statute or our decisions recognizing that a sanction for a postrelease-control violation is not punishment for…
Further update: on August 4, 2020, the court of appeals decision was reversed and the case remanded to the appeals court for application of State v. Taylor, Slip Opinion 2020-Ohio-3514, in which the Court held on July 2, 2020, that R.C. 2947.23(C) does not require a trial court to consider the defendant’s ability…
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…
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…
Update: On December 21, 2018, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in this case. Read the analysis here.
“So you would have trial judges just sit there and read from a script to the defendant, which is a universal script and then put the paper down, and that’s it?”
Chief Justice…
Update: On December 21, 2018, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in this case. Read the analysis here.
“So you would have trial judges just sit there and read from a script to the defendant, which is a universal script and then put the paper down, and that’s it?”
Chief Justice…
Update: On September 20, 2018, the Supreme Court of Ohio dismissed this case as improvidently accepted. Read more about that here.
Read an analysis of the oral argument here.
On July 31, 2018, the Supreme Court of Ohio will hear oral argument in the case of In re L.G. (2017-0877). At issue in this…
Update: On December 21, 2018, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in this case. Read the analysis here.
Read the analysis of the oral argument here.
On July 18, 2018, the Supreme Court of Ohio will hear oral argument in the case of State of Ohio v. Dustin Bishop, 2017-1715. The…
“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…
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…
