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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: 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…
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…
Update: Read what happened on remand in this case here.
On April 26, 2016, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in State v. Barker, 2016-Ohio-2708. In a 5-2 opinion written by Justice French, joined by Chief Justice O’Connor and Justices Lanzinger, Pfeifer, and O’Neill, the court held that R.C. 2933.81(B)…
Update: Read what happened on remand in this case here.
On April 26, 2016, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in State v. Barker, 2016-Ohio-2708. In a 5-2 opinion written by Justice French, joined by Chief Justice O’Connor and Justices Lanzinger, Pfeifer, and O’Neill, the court held that R.C. 2933.81(B)…
Further 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.
Update: On December 22, 2016, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in this case. Read the analysis here.
“Even though as you said…
Further 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.
Update: On December 22, 2016, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in this case. Read the analysis here.
Read the analysis of the…
Update: On August 25, 2016, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in this case. Read the analysis here.
“An adjudication is not the same as a conviction, and you want to now transform it from an adjudication to a conviction for this purpose?” Chief Justice O’Connor, to the prosecutor.
On December…
Update: On August 25, 2016, 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 December 1, 2015 the Supreme Court of Ohio will hear oral argument in the case of State of Ohio v. Adrian L. Hand, Jr.
Update: On April 28, 2016, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in this case. Read the analysis here.
“Where in this record can I look at this mentally challenged 15 year old who said, yeah I talked to a lawyer but I don’t know what a lawyer is. Where do I…
