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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, and sentenced to four years in prison. Ultimately, the Eighth District Court of Appeals reversed the convictions, and ordered Doss released from prison.
Upon…
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Paul Jones and Latosha Sanders bought a new house from Centex Homes. After they moved in, they found that their electronic equipment didn’t work right. They alleged that the reason was because metal joists in the house were magnetized. Another couple, Eric and Ginger Estep, brought a lawsuit against Centex with identical issues.…
Case Background
When this accident happened Michael Hawsman was twelve years old; he is now an adult, which is why the case caption now lists his full name instead of his initials. Speedy justice this is not.
In May of 2006 Michael broke his knee in a diving board accident at the Cuyahoga Falls Natatorium…
Update: On November 25, 2014, the plaintiffs filed a satisfaction of judgment in the case.
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Larry Moretz had suffered from acute back pain for many years. In 2005, Dr. Kamel Muakkassa, a neurosurgeon, diagnosed Moretz with an anterior sacral menigocele, a rare type of cyst in the lower spinal cord. Muakkassa referred Moretz…
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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…
Moore v. Middletown
In 2012, in Clifton v. v. Blanchester, 2012-Ohio-780, the Supreme Court of Ohio held that a property owner outside the corporate limits of the village involved could not challenge the re-zoning of a contiguous business within the village limits, nor bring a regulatory-takings claim against the village.
The same day Clifton was…
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In 2007, Donald Landfair, then 78 years old, 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 to be shod. As Landfair was unloading Annie from the trailer…
Further Update: This case was set for a jury trial on August 17, 2015, and settled on August 15.
Update: Read about Chapter III of this case here.
Case Background
In May of 2006, M.H., then a minor, broke his knee in a diving board accident at the Cuyahoga Falls Natatorium and Wellness Center. The…
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On October 7, 2009, Keith Ramey and Jonathan Keeton were arrested and indicted for aggravated robbery, felonious assault, and breaking and entering. The state opted to try the two defendants together. After their arrest, Keeton was released on bond, but Ramey remained jailed until the trial.
At a pretrial conference, lawyers for both…
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, and sentenced to four years in prison. The charges arose from a night of drinking on New Year’s eve, 2004. The victim, J.P., ended…
