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Update: Read an analysis of the argument here.
On April 14, 2021, the Supreme Court of Ohio will hear oral argument in State of Ohio v. Manson M. Bryant, 2020-0599. At issue in this case is whether a defendant’s expletive laden outburst directed at the judge after his sentence was announced constitutes a…
“Additionally, we conclude that the difference between a sentence of life in prison with parole eligibility after a term of years and a sentence of life without the possibility of parole is not material for purposes of an Eighth Amendment challenge by an offender who was a juvenile when he or she committed the offense.”…
Update: On December 21, 2020, the Court dismissed this case as improvidently certified.
“If we agree with you and we sever out subsection (b) in its entirety, doesn’t your client lose?”
Justice Fischer, to counsel for Carlisle
“So, explain to me how this authority given to law enforcement can be exercised to thwart the discretion…
Update: On December 21, 2020, the Court dismissed this case as improvidently certified.
Read the analysis of the argument here.
Update: On July 17, 2020, the Court granted a continuance in the oral argument of this case until August 18, 2020.
On July 22, 2020, the Supreme Court of Ohio will hear oral argument in…
Update: On December 22, 2020, in a 4-3 decision, the Court reversed the judgment of the Seventh District Court of Appeals on the authority of State v. Patrick Slip Opinion No. 2020-Ohio-6803, and remanded the case back to the Seventh District for further proceedings consistent with its opinion in Patrick. Read the analysis of…
Update: On December 22, 2020 the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in this case. Read the analysis here.
Update: On May 1, 2020, after the case was argued, the Court requested additional briefing from the parties in this case. Read about that here.
On April 28, 2020, the Supreme Court of…
Update: On December 21, 2018, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in this case. Read the analysis here.
“So you would have trial judges just sit there and read from a script to the defendant, which is a universal script and then put the paper down, and that’s it?”
Chief Justice…
Update: On December 21, 2018, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in this case. Read the analysis here.
Read the analysis of the oral argument here.
On July 18, 2018, the Supreme Court of Ohio will hear oral argument in the case of State of Ohio v. Dustin Bishop, 2017-1715. The…
Update: On November 5, 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court denied Mason’s cert. petition
On April 18, 2018, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in State v. Mason, 2018-Ohio-1462. In a unanimous opinion written by Justice Fischer, with two appellate judges subbing for Justices O’Donnell and O’Neill, the Court upheld…
Update: On April 18, 2018, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in this case. Read the analysis here.
“Does it matter that in Ohio if the jury had not recommended death, the trial court would have no authority to impose death?”
Justice French, to defense counsel
On January 23, 2018, the…
