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Update: On April 16, 2020, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in this case. Read the analysis here.
Read the analysis of the oral argument in this case here.
On December 10, 2019, the Supreme Court of Ohio will hear oral argument in In re A.W., A Minor Child, 2018-1182. At…
Update: On May 21, 2020, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in this case. Read the analysis here.
On August 6, 2019, the Supreme Court of Ohio heard oral argument in State of Ohio v. Robert Buttery, 2018-0183. At issue in this case is whether juvenile adjudications can satisfy the…
Well, that was quick. On January 23, 2019, two weeks after it was argued, by a vote of 5-2, the Supreme Court of Ohio dismissed State v. Amos 2017-1778, as improvidently accepted. See, State v. Amos, Slip Opinion No. 2019-Ohio-168. The issue in the case was whether a juvenile court has jurisdiction to…
Update: On January 23, 2019, the Supreme Court of Ohio dismissed this case as improvidently accepted.
On January 9, 2019, the Supreme Court of Ohio heard oral argument in the case of State of Ohio v. Ronald Amos, 2017-1778. At issue in the case is whether a juvenile court has jurisdiction to hold a…
On September 20, 2018, by a 4-3 vote, the Supreme Court of Ohio dismissed In re L.G. Slip Opinion No. 2018-Ohio-3750, as improvidently accepted. The issue in the case was whether a minor’s rights against self-incrimination were violated when he was questioned in the presence of police officers by a school resource supervisor, who was…
“…Martin cannot prevail on the merits of her safe-harbor claim because she cannot show that plain error occurred in the juvenile court.”
Justice French, majority opinion
“The record here demonstrates plain error in that the juvenile court deviated from the statute because it never considered or addressed whether Martin’s victimization by Kerney related to these…
“The risk-assessment determination made by the General Assembly in enacting R.C. 2923.13 does not undermine the rehabilitative purpose of the juvenile-justice system, nor does it give rise to the due-process concerns we were called upon to resolve in Hand. Framed differently, the lack of a right to a jury trial, as well as other…
Update: On September 20, 2018, the Supreme Court of Ohio dismissed this case as improvidently accepted. Read more about that here.
“The trial court here, and the court of appeals, have determined the facts in this case suggest that the supervisor was an agent of the police. So, what about the facts in this case…
