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• "Special counsel" issue in Hamilton County, Ohio

  Two of Hamilton County, Ohio's three county commissioners last week filed a petition with the Ohio Supreme Court asking that the high court block an order issued by the same county's court of common pleas,…

• Ohio execution method changed

  For those who haven't heard, the State of Ohio announced last Friday that it was adopting a single-drug method to execute capital crime inmates instead of the 3-drug "cocktail" employed by 35 other states in…

• Juvenile Life Sentencing Update

  Aside from death penalty cases, a USA Today article this morning says, justices of the Supreme Court have never before found a penalty crossed the cruel-and-unusual punishment line. That may have changed this morning."Life sentences…

• Ohio Supreme Court upholds "intensive program prison" release

  In a case echoing State v. Bloomer back in June, in which the Ohio Supreme Court held that trial courts "had a statutory duty to provide notice to offenders of post-release control at the sentencing…

• PACER redaction policies

  For those who don't know what PACER (Public Access to Court Electronic Records) is, first of all, it is "an electronic public access service that allows users to obtain case and docket information from Federal…

• Kentucky Supreme Court sex offender residency case appealled

  On October 1, the Kentucky Supreme Court joined those of both Ohio and Indiana in holding that sex offender residency laws could not be applied retroactively. But, by the end of the month, articles were…

• Ohio Supreme Court's "special dockets" advisory committee

  Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice Thomas J. Moyer announced the creation of a 15-member advisory board charged with advancing the goals of Ohio's "specialized dockets program" last month. That board, chaired by Butler County Common…

• Ohio reviewing mandatory supervision cases

  Last June 9th., the Ohio Supreme Court again addressed the consequences of a trial court's failure to either notify an offender about post-release control at the time of sentencing or incorporating post-release controls into its…

• Ohio death penalty stays

  The United States 6th. Circuit and Southern Ohio District Courts, this week, joined to effectively postpone any executions in the state of Ohio at least until next Spring. On October 5th., the Sixth Circuit stayed…

• MySpace evidence allowed by Indiana Supreme Court

  The Indiana Supreme Court addressed a "novel question" last Thursday in ruling that prosecutors properly introduced electronic evidence from an accused murderer's MySpace page. ( Case ) The defendant had contended that the trial court…