Impeachment

What’s On Their Minds? May the Trial Court Call a Recanting Domestic Violence Victim as its Own Witness under Evid. R. 614(A)? State v. Ginley.

By Marianna Bettman on October 5, 2011

Update: On October 26 this case was dismissed as improvidently allowed.

On October 4 the Supreme Court of Ohio heard oral argument in State v. Ginley, case # 2010-1925. This case deals with the troubling issue of victims of domestic violence (the vast majority of whom are women) recanting at trial prior statements to…

Oral Argument Preview: May the Trial Court Call a Recanting Domestic Violence Victim as its Own Witness under Evid. R. 614(A)? State v. Ginley.

By Marianna Bettman on September 29, 2011

Update: On October 16 the Supreme Court of Ohio dismissed State v. Ginley, case # 2010-1925 as improvidently allowed.

State v. Ginley comes to the Supreme Court after the Eighth District denied the State’s discretionary appeal. It involves a domestic violence criminal case and the application of Evid. R. 614(A)

A disturbingly common problem…