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Update: On April 28, 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 November 17, 2015, the Supreme Court of Ohio will hear oral argument in the case of State of Ohio v. Tyshawn Barker, 14-1560…
Update: After the Supreme Court of Ohio sent this case back for re-sentencing, the trial court again sentenced Long to life without the possibility of parole. The appeals court affirmed this sentence, and on February 17, 2016 the Supreme Court of Ohio declined to hear the case again. So it looks like it’s over for…
Update: On December 22, 2016, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in this case. Read the analysis here.
“This was a sentence designed to keep the juvenile in custody for his natural life. The question is, does Graham prohibit that under these circumstances?” Justice Judy Lanzinger.
On February 4, 2015 the…
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 oral argument here.
On February 4, 2015 the Supreme Court of Ohio will hear oral argument in the case of State of Ohio v. Brandon Moore, 2014-0120.…
On September 23, 2014, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in State v. Quarterman,2014-Ohio-4034. The defendant in this case raised a constitutional challenge to Ohio’s mandatory bind-over statutes. In a unanimous opinion written by Justice Terrence O’Donnell, in which Justice Judy Lanzinger concurred in judgment only, the Court…
On September 23, 2014, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in State v. Quarterman,2014-Ohio-4034. The defendant in this case raised a constitutional challenge to Ohio’s mandatory bind-over statutes. In a unanimous opinion written by Justice Terrence O’Donnell, in which Justice Judy Lanzinger concurred in judgment only, the Court…
Case background
Eric Long, then seventeen, along with two adult offenders, aged 25 and 26, was convicted of two counts of aggravated murder arising out of a shooting on I-75 in Hamilton County involving assault style weapons. At a joint sentencing hearing with the two adult co-defendants, Long was sentenced to consecutive terms of life…
Update: On September 23, 2014 the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in this case. Read the analysis here.
On July 8, 2014, the Supreme Court of Ohio heard oral argument in the case of State of Ohio v. Alexander Quarterman et al. 2013-1591. The central issue in this case is…
Update. On September 23, 2014, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in this case. Read the analysis here.
Read the analysis of the argument here.
On July 8, 2014, the Supreme Court of Ohio will hear oral argument in the case of State of Ohio v. Alexander Quarterman et al. 2013-1591…
