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On May 6, 2009, by a majority decision of 6–1, the Ohio Supreme Court approved and signed a death warrant for Keene, and ordered that his death sentence should be carried out on July 21, 2009. [38] In response to Keene's death warrant, an appeal was lodged to delay his execution, but the Ohio Supreme Court refused to halt the execution.
There are currently 69 courts of appeals judges as provided by statute. A court of appeals judge is an elected position, with a term of six years. The Ohio Supreme Court has the discretion to review cases from the courts of appeals, but generally the appeals process in Ohio ends with the decision of the court of appeals.
The Second District Court of Appeals and the Twelfth District Court of Appeals, however, did consider the constitutionality of the law. In both cases, the courts upheld the Reagan Tokes Act. In January 2021, the Ohio Supreme Court announced that it had accepted appeals of the decisions made by the Fifth District Court of Appeals and the Sixth ...
In a split decision, the Ohio Supreme Court upheld a 65-year prison sentence given to a woman who stole items from nursing home residents.
At a hearing in Hamilton County Common Pleas Court, Judge Jody Luebbers found that Fitzpatrick – who appeared by video from a state prison in Chillicothe – was ineligible for the death penalty
10th District Court of Appeals Judge Terri Jamison, who lost her bid for the high court in 2022, ... Jamison also said she supports the Ohio Sentencing Data Project, a years-long effort to create ...
The Ohio Court of Claims is a court of limited, statewide jurisdiction. The court's jurisdiction extends to matters in which the State of Ohio is a party and the state has waived its sovereign immunity by statute, and also hears appeals from decisions made by the Ohio Attorney General on claims allowed under the Victims of Crime Act.
The court did not speak to the constitutional issues. In November 2003, the Ohio Supreme Court declined, by a 5–2 vote, to take the case on further appeal. [3] The case was sent back to trial court, and in March 2004, was dismissed. The trial judge held that "the charge did not meet the standard of the Ohio law that prosecutors used". [4]