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State v. Shane (590 N.E.2d 272, 63 Ohio St. 3d 630) is a 1992 Ohio Supreme Court voluntary manslaughter case that developed a two-step test for "reasonably sufficient provocation" and held that verbal confessions of adultery could not be "reasonably sufficient" provocation.
Amy's Law (House Bill 29) is an Ohio law that toughened requirements for granting bail or bond to persons accused of domestic assault in Ohio. [1] The bill was sponsored by State Representative James Raussen (OH-28), It was signed into law by Governor Bob Taft on May 25, 2005, after domestic violence survivor Amy Rezos pushed for stronger penalties for domestic abusers in the state.
Eric Joering and Anthony "Tony" Morelli were police officers who were murdered on February 10, 2018, in Westerville, Ohio after responding to a domestic violence incident. [1] [2] Joering, 39, and Morelli, 54, were shot and killed by Quentin Smith, who had punched and choked his wife, [3] leading to her making a 9-1-1 hangup call. [4]
In Ohio last year, there were guilty pleas in 78% of criminal cases, according to statistics compiled by the state Supreme Court. Only 2% went to trial before a judge or jury. The rest were ...
John F. Boyle Jr., a former doctor from Mansfield, Ohio, was convicted for the murder of his wife Noreen in 1989. His case became highly publicized due to the nature of the crime, where he suffocated his wife and then entombed her body inside a home he owned in Erie, Pennsylvania. Despite the gruesome nature of his crime, Boyle's children have ...
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Jacob Runyan, 42, of Ashtabula, Ohio, and Chase Cominsky, 35, of Hermitage, Pennsylvania, entered their not-guilty pleas through their attorneys in a Cleveland courtroom on Wednesday.
Procedural changes implemented by tournament director Jason Fischer for the upcoming season made him "judge, jury and executioner" in cases of alleged cheating. Runyan also called for an end to the use of lie detectors and voice stress analysis (VSA) to catch suspected cheaters, since those results are inadmissible as evidence in court.