Cincinnati Law Library Blog

This blawg provides summaries and links of appellate and U.S. Supreme Court decisions as well as reports on legislative action in Ohio and the U.S. Congress.

Author: Chuck Kallendorf.

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Recent Posts from Cincinnati Law Library Blog

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…
U.S. Supreme Court SORNA retroactivity case
The U.S. Supreme Court, on Sept. 30th., granted certiorari to a case from the Northern District of Indiana which raises several constitutional challenges to the federal Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA) with respect…
Kentucky sex offender residency statute unconstitutional when applied retroactively
The Kentucky Supreme Court on October 1st. held that that state's sex offender residency restrictions prohibiting where offenders could live – specifically near schools or daycare centers-- were unconstitutional when applied retroactively. (Court's Holding) (…
Who can intervene in cases of "original jurisdiction"?
Courts of "original jurisdiction" are those having priority over other tribunals to decide a case; Black's Law Dictionary defines an "intervenor" as "one voluntarily entering a pending lawsuit because of a personal stake in the…