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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: read what happened on remand in this case here.
On March 12, 2014, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in State v. Long, 2014-Ohio-849. While the justices unanimously agreed that a trial court must consider youth as a mitigating factor in imposing a sentence of life without parole on a…
Update: on March 12, 2014, the Supreme Court handed down a merit decision in this case. read the analysis here.
On June 11, 2013, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in the case of State of Ohio v. Eric Long, 2012-1410. At issue in this case is whether, if not mandatory, the state can…
