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“There is nothing in the record indicating that Dangler would not have entered his plea had he been more thoroughly informed of the details of the sex-offender-classification scheme… Because Dangler has not established prejudice, he is not entitled to have his no contest plea vacated for a failure to comply with Crim.R. 11(C).”
Justice DeWine…
“There is nothing in the record indicating that Dangler would not have entered his plea had he been more thoroughly informed of the details of the sex-offender-classification scheme… Because Dangler has not established prejudice, he is not entitled to have his no contest plea vacated for a failure to comply with Crim.R. 11(C).”
Justice DeWine…
“To say that the purpose of the rape-shield law is not furthered by excluding evidence of an accuser’s past sexual abuse is to vastly underestimate the insidiousness of victim blaming. We reject Jeffries’s narrow interpretation.”
Justice Donnelly, Opinion of the Court
On April 22, 2020, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision…
“Miller mistakenly equates strict compliance with a requirement that the judge recite the provisions of Crim.R. 11(C)(2)(c) almost verbatim… We have never mandated that a trial court use particular words in order to comply with Crim.R. 11(C)(2)(c).”
Justice Fischer, opinion of the Court
On April 14, 2020, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a…
On April 17, 2020, Governor Mike DeWine commuted the sentence of sex-trafficking victim Alexis Martin. While a juvenile, Martin was involved in a robbery and house burglary gone awry in which her trafficker was shot and killed, although she was not the shooter. Martin was bound over to adult court where she pleaded guilty to…
Update: On July 23, 2020, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in this case. Read the analysis here.
“Why isn’t it enough to say I would not have pled guilty if I knew I was going to be deported?”
Justice Stewart to the Assistant Prosecutor
“Is there anything that you have…
Update: On May 27,2020, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in this case. Read the analysis here.
“Doesn’t a structural error have to be a constitutional error? Don’t we know from the U.S. Supreme Court that that this is not a constitutional error?”
Justice DeWine, to the Assistant County Public Defender…
Update: On July 23, 2020, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in this case. Read the analysis here.
Read an analysis of the oral argument here.
On March 11, 2020, the Supreme Court of Ohio will hear oral argument in State of Ohio v. Emeric Bozso, 2018-1007. At issue…
“Notably, nothing in either the text of Ohio’s domestic-violence statute or the definition of ‘physical harm’ indicates that the state must prove, as Faggs suggests, that the accused’s actions while inflicting corporal punishment were unreasonable.”
Justice Fischer, opinion of the Court
On February 19, 2020 the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision…
Update: On May 5, 2020, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in this case. Read the analysis here.
The Supreme Court of Ohio heard oral argument in in State of Ohio v. Brad J. Dangler, 2017-1703 on February 20, 2019, now over a year ago. At issue in the case…
