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Update: On July 26, 2016, Doss was found not to be a wrongfully-imprisoned person. Read more about that here.
Case Background.
In 2006, Iran Doss was convicted of kidnapping and rape from an incident that occurred on New Year’s Eve of 2004. He was sentenced to four years in prison. Subsequently, the Eighth District Court…
Update: Read more about what happened on remand here.
Case Background
In October of 2007, a building in the Village Green Apartments in Beachwood was destroyed by fire. The apartments were owned by Village Green of Beachwood, L.P., and managed by Forest City Residential Management, Inc. (Collectively, Village Green). There had been another fire in…
Two cases involving firefighters causing accidents during emergency runs have now been settled.
Anderson v. Massillon
In Anderson v. Massillon, 2012-Ohio-5711, a fire engine pumper truck on the way to a car fire approached an intersection going significantly in excess of the speed limit, and broadsided a van that had entered the intersection,…
Two cases involving firefighters causing accidents during emergency runs have now been settled.
Anderson v. Massillon
In Anderson v. Massillon, 2012-Ohio-5711, a fire engine pumper truck on the way to a car fire approached an intersection going significantly in excess of the speed limit, and broadsided a van that had entered the intersection,…
Case Background
On April 30, 1996, Willie Herring and five other men robbed a bar in Youngstown which resulted in the deaths of three people. Herring, who was barely eighteen at the time of the crime, was subsequently convicted of three counts of complicity to commit aggravated murder, two counts of attempted aggravated murder, two…
Friebel v. Visiting Nurse Assn. of Mid-Ohio
On October 21, 2014, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in Friebel v. Visiting Nurse Assn. of Mid-Ohio, 2014-Ohio-4531. The issue in the case was whether an Ohio worker’s compensation claimant can have “dual intent,” simultaneously being on a personal errand and acting…
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…
Case Background
Thomas Ricks and co-defendant Aaron Gipson allegedly visited Chanel Harper and Crystal Pool at the Harper residence in Sandusky, Ohio. Gipson and Ricks were visiting from Michigan. Although neither of the two women had seen Ricks before that night, Harper’s brother, Calvin, was allegedly involved with Gipson in dealing drugs.
The day after…
Case Background
In 2007, Donald Landfair, then 78 years old (which means he is now 85 or 86—justice does move slowly!) boarded two of his horses, including Green Acre Annie (“Annie”) at Rochel Smith’s father’s stables. Rochel Smith was barn manager there. In March of 2007, Landfair transported his horses by trailer to a blacksmith…
Case Background
In 2004, Charles Ralston was hired as a helper at a wastewater treatment plant owned and operated by the city of North Ridgeville. Though Ralston had a criminal record, at his interview and on his employment application, he was asked only if he had any prior felony convictions. Unbeknownst to the city, Ralston…
