JUNE 27, 2017
Andrea Rocco Can Run for Westlake Law Director, Ohio Supreme Court Rules - Cleveland Plain Dealer
State Auditor Orders ECOT to Stop Spending Tax Dollars on Attack Ads - Columbus Dispatch
District Court Denies Crestline Triple Murderer’s Appeal for New Trial - Richland Source
Decision About 3rd Tensing Trial to Be Announced After July 10 - Cincinnati Enquirer
Accused School Shooter Will Be Allowed to Use Insanity Defense - Dayton WDTN-TV
Family, Others Testify as Defense Tries to Avoid Death Penalty for Rutledge - Columbus Dispatch
Ex-Wife’s Sanity at Issue Today in Warren County Hearing in Murder Case - Dayton Daily News
The Last Shot - ProPublica
Pike County Sheriff Issues Alert About Criminal Gang, Heroin - Dayton Daily News
Middletown Opioid Crisis: 11 Staggering Numbers for 2017 - Dayton Daily News
Ohio, W.Va. Grapple with Opioid Overdoses - Steubenville WTOV-TV
Kroger, County Partner on Drug Disposal Bags to Fight Opioid Overdoses - Dayton Daily News
Narcan Fatigue - Cambridge Daily Jeffersonian
Longtime Lawyer Put Home, Family Before His Career - Toledo Blade
Courthouse Statues on Display Downtown Until 2 p.m. - Youngstown Vindicator
Who Should Pick Fake Judges? - Toledo Blade Editorial
Supreme Court Rules Churches Can Use Public Money for Non-Religious Purposes - Columbus Dispatch
JUNE 26, 2017
Supreme Court Reversal Has ‘Rare’ Impact on Kettering Murder Charges - Dayton Daily News
Summit County Judge Can Stay on KNR Lawsuit, Supreme Court Justice Says - Cleveland Plain Dealer
Indefinite Suspension Recommended for Troy Lawyer - Dayton Daily News
Disbarred Sagamore Hills Attorney Charged with Forging Legal Documents - Cleveland Plain Dealer
Warren County Residents to Keep Fighting Neighborhood Septic Business - Dayton Daily News
With Execution Looming, Morva’s Mental Illness Has Set off a New Death Penalty Battle - Washington Post
Summit County Program to Help Juvenile Human-Trafficking Victims Receives Final State Certification - Akron Beacon Journal
Sponsors Sought for Legal Aid Event - Canton Repository
Accidental Shooting Leads to Patriotic Punishment - Canton Repository
Ray Tensing Retrial: Mistrial Declared for 2nd Time After Jury Deadlocks - CNN
Ray Tensing Jury ‘Almost Evenly Split,’ Judge Declares Second Mistrial - Cincinnati Enquirer
Ohio Killer Who Survived Execution Wants Next Try Blocked - Cleveland WOIO-TV
Richard Sheward | 1944-2017: Retired Franklin County Judge Remembered as ‘All-Around Class Act’ - Columbus Dispatch
Program Teaches Golf and Values to Teens in Court System - Canton Repository
ECOT Continues Tax-Funded Ad Blitz Despite Layoff Announcement - Columbus Dispatch
Proposed Ohio Law: Tax Break to Encourage Pro Bono Work - Willoughby News-Herald
Should Ohio Automatically Release Inmates if Prisons Too Crowded? - Columbus Dispatch
The Inside Story: Reynoldsburg School Board Conducts Business in the Dark – Columbus Dispatch
Vivitrol Program’s First Grads Achieve Life-Changing Milestones - Athens Messenger
Help After the Overdose: Lima Program Offers Recovery Roadmap for Opioid Addicts - Lima News
Attitudes, Legal Standards Help Make Police Convictions Rare – Associated Press
Law You Can Use: Ohio’s Civil Legal Aid System Offers Hope to Low-Income Individuals - Willoughby News-Herald
Supreme Court Case Could Alter Ohio’s Political Map - Toledo Blade
Pa. High Court Rules Police Videos Are Public Record - Lehigh Valley (Pa.) Live
Open the Doors of Supreme Court - Los Angeles Times Guest Column
JUNE 23, 2017
Lawyers for Q Deal Opposition Ask Ohio Supreme Court to Dismiss City’s “Collusive” Lawsuit - Cleveland Scene
Ohio’s Budget Proposal Could Make It Easier for People Wrongly Convicted to Get Compensation - Ohio Public Radio
Former Barberton Muni Judge Is Finding Her Stride in Summit County - Akron Legal News
Jury Deadlocks in Cincinnati’s Cop’s Murder Retrial - Associated Press
Ray Tensing Retrial Jurors Can’t Reach Decision, Judge Sends Them Back to Work - Cincinnati Enquirer
I-75 Convicted Killer Sentenced to Death - Hamilton Journal-News
Shouting Match Erupts Between Witness, Attorney in Cleveland Police Officer’s Homicide Trial - Cleveland Plain Dealer
Cleveland Municipal Court’s Bail Reform Delayed Slightly: Justice for All - Cleveland Plain Dealer
This Judge Is Using a Phone App to Combat Drunk Driving - The Daily Signal
Don’t Blame Judges for Crowded Prisons - Columbus Dispatch Letter to the Editor
Family Drug Court Will Be Key Tool - Ashtabula Star Beacon
Stark Judges Pitch in to Save Frank T. Bow Murals - Massillon Independent
Akron Legal Community Rallies Around Attorney Injured in Motorcycle Crash; Benefit Planned for Thursday - Akron Beacon Journal
Long-Time Magistrate Leaves Huron County - Norwalk Reflector
Hamilton Man Racked up $436K in Debt Pretending to Be Lawyer - Cincinnati Enquirer
What Happened in Other Trials like Ray Tensing’s? - Cincinnati Enquirer
How Rare Are Convictions in Police Shootings? – Cincinnati WLWT-TV
Middletown Council Member: Can We Stop Responding to Overdoses? - Middletown Journal-News
TCAP Program Aids Local Court with Low-Level Offenders - Early Bird Paper
Future of Ohio’s Death Penalty Hangs on Legality of Midazolam – Ohio Public Radio
Sheriff Says Highland County Jail Improved, but HB 49 a Threat - Hillsboro Times Gazette
Crime Victim Bill of Rights Going to Voters - Lima News
500,000+ Signatures Submitted to Put Marsy’s Law on Ohio Ballot - Columbus Dispatch
Do We Really Want the Supreme Court to Decide How Partisan Is Too Partisan? - Washington Post
JUNE 22, 2017
Ohio Tackling Opioid Epidemic – Akron.com
PUCO: Submeter Companies Can’t Charge Customers More than a Regulated Utility Would – Columbus Dispatch
Ohio House Passes Domestic Violence Legislation – Lorain Morning Journal
Mike DeWine Now Opposes Expansion of Ohio’s Wrongful-Incarceration Settlement Program – Columbus Dispatch
This Land Was Made for You and Me: Modern Patriotism – Athens News Column
Ohio Law Allowed Self-Defense Claim in Deadly Pepper Pike Drug Deal – Cleveland Plain Dealer
Overcrowding Isn’t Judges’ Fault – Columbus Dispatch Letter to the Editor
Partner of Cleveland Cop on Trial in Fatal Shooting Testifies Shooting Was Unnecessary – Cleveland Plain Dealer
18 Hours of Deliberations, No Verdict in Tensing Retrial – Cincinnati Enquirer
Court Defers to Doctor on Keeping Bebb’s Privileges Unchanged – Athens Messenger
Ex-Ohio Justice to Look at Discrepancies in City’s Finances – Toledo Blade
Lawmakers Seek to Close Child Support Law Loopholes – Columbus Daily Reporter
Victims’ Rights Constitutional Amendment Likely on November Ballot – Toledo Blade
Statehouse Battle Looming over Addiction Crisis; Medicaid Freeze Panned – Columbus Dispatch
Opioid Battle in Franklin County to Focus on Treatment, Education – Columbus Dispatch
Coalition Seeks to Help Springfield Businesses with Drug Epidemic – Springfield News-Sun
Will the Law Treat Opioids More Like Cigarettes or Handguns? – Bloomberg
Can Words Kill? Guilty Verdict in Texting Suicide Trial Raises Questions – ABC News
JUNE 21, 2017
Repeated Arrests Cost Columbus Lawyer Her License – Columbus Dispatch
Ohio Supreme Court Revokes Macedonia Lawyer’s License – Akron Beacon Journal
Ohio Supreme Court Turns down Appeal of Innocent ‘Killer’ – Columbus Dispatch
Ohio High Court Rules Alliance Petroleum, Anadarko Did Not Violate Oil and Gas Lease Terms – Legal News Line
Attorneys for Death-Row Inmate Tyrone Noling Ask Ohio Supreme Court to Allow DNA Testing of 27-Year-Old Evidence – Cleveland Plain Dealer
ECOT Laying off Quarter of Its Staff so School Can Repay $60 Million to State – Columbus Dispatch
Tensing Jury to Resume Deliberations Wednesday; Most Seem in Good Spirits – Cincinnati Enquirer
Judge Jean Capers Will Attend College Commencements Long into the Future – Cleveland Plain Dealer
Bill to Prohibit Village of Brice from Steep Traffic Fines Set for House Vote – Columbus WSYX-TV
Study Finds Tougher Drug Sentences Don’t Reduce Crime, Overdoses – Columbus Dispatch
Coroner: Franklin County Overdose Deaths Up 66 Percent – Columbus Dispatch
Butler County Officials Respond to Claims Woman Fired for Being Jewish – Hamilton Journal-News
Jimmy Dimora Again Asks Judge to Toss His Corruption Conviction – Cleveland Plain Dealer
College Wants Lawsuit to Go Back to Federal Court – Athens Messenger
Appeal Filed in Lawsuit over Racial Covenants in Old Real Estate Records – Athens Messenger
Should Hate Speech Be Protected by the First Amendment? – Cleveland Plain Dealer
An Explainer of Tuesday’s Supreme Court Rulings and How They Affect You – Sinclair Broadcast Group
Some States Beat Supreme Court to Punch on Eliminating Gerrymanders – New York Times
Supreme Court’s Personal Jurisdiction Ruling Has Immediate Impact – National Law Review
Feds Offer $1B to Fight Drug Epidemic as Overdoses Rise in Springfield – Springfield News-Sun
Wall Street Now Fears the Lawyer Who Used to Defend It – Bloomberg
JUNE 20, 2017
Kent attorney convicted of having child porn on library computer has law license suspended – Cleveland Plain Dealer
Death-row inmate Tyrone Noling to ask Ohio Supreme Court to allow DNA testing of evidence – Cleveland Plain Dealer
Prosecutor criticizes lead investigator in Ray Tensing case – Cincinnati Enquirer
Justice Insider: Judge doesn’t want to guess on child-porn restitution – Columbus Dispatch column
Grendell elected OAPJ secretary historian – Geauga County Maple Leaf
Some addicts should come off court dockets, into rehab – Toledo Blade editorial
Middletown on pace to double drug overdoses from last year – Middletown Journal-News
The marijuana/fentanyl mix possibility: Here’s what you should know – Cincinnati Enquirer
No vacancy – Findlay Courier editorial
Ohio investigative agents to be trained to recognize human trafficking victims – Cleveland Plain Dealer
JUNE 19, 2017
Grievance Against Ohio Justice Kennedy Dismissed – Toledo Blade
Facing Death, Tyrone Noling Pushes Ohio Supreme Court for More Access to DNA – Kent WKSU Radio
Ohio Supreme Court Closes Door on Ex-Sheriff’s Appeal – Athens News
Ohio Supreme Court Tells Farmer ‘No’ Again – Mount Vernon News
Will ECOT Receive a Favor? – Akron Beacon Journal
Petro: DNA Testing Vital to Obtaining Just Convictions – Cincinnati Enquirer Guest Column
Jury Deliberations Begin in Ohio Officer’s Murder Retrial – Associated Press
Ray Tensing: ‘I Shot to Stop the Threat’ – Cincinnati Enquirer
Judge Puffenberger Receives Award – Toledo Blade
Dublin Shows off Its Expanded, Renovated Justice Center – Columbus Dispatch
Lawsuits Turn Spotlight on Misconduct by Private Food-Service Workers in Ohio Prisons – Columbus Dispatch
Ohio Prisons to Clarify Hearing Aids Policy, Pay $22,000 to Settle ACLU Lawsuit – Cleveland Plain Dealer
Does God Have a Place in Public Meetings or on Money? – Cincinnati Enquirer
U.S. Supreme Court Won’t Hear Ohio Voting Rights Appeal – Columbus Dispatch
U.S. Supreme Court Won’t Hear Ohio Voting Case – Associated Press
Justices Reverse Ruling that Overturned Man’s Death Sentence – Associated Press
Justices Say Government Can’t Refuse Disparaging Trademarks – Associated Press
Justices Could Take up High-Stakes Fight over Electoral Maps – Associated Press
Courts Reshape Modern Families – Associated Press
Doctors Key to Overcoming Opioids Epidemic – Associated Press
New Resource to Help Fight Heroin, Opioid Epidemic – Associated Press
States Are Treating Drug Makers like Street Dealers to Address the US Opioid Epidemic – Quartz
JUNE 16, 2017
This Week in Supreme Court History: A Win for ‘Stop and Frisk’ – National Constitution Center
Ohio Budget Bill Would Expand Wrongful Conviction Payouts – Cleveland Plain Dealer
Champaign County 14-Year-Old Competent for Trial in Stepmom’s Death – Springfield News-Sun
Another Lawsuit Filed as ECOT Continues Its Fight with the State Government: Ohio Politics Roundup – Cleveland Plain Dealer
Tensing Prosecutors May Not Be Confident About Conviction – Cincinnati Enquirer
Judge Rejects Request for New Charge in Ohio Police Retrial – Associated Press
Ohio Judge Hopes Woman Convicted of Girl’s Death Dies in Prison – Associated Press
Woman Guilty in Girl’s Horrific Death – Toledo Blade
Judge Explains Why She Needs Contested Budget Increase – Mansfield News Journal
DNA from Thousands of Cuyahoga County Felony Arrests Never Taken, Not in CODIS Crime-Solving Database – Cleveland Plain Dealer
Family of Attorneys Starts New Cincinnati Law Firm – Cincinnati Business Courier
Bill May Buy ECOT Time to Pay Its Tab – Toledo Blade
Trafficking Victims Get Practical Aid – Toledo Blade Editorial
How Much Butler County Is Making to House Hamilton County Inmates – Hamilton Journal-News
Dog the Bounty Hunter Barks at Bail Reform in California, but Lawmakers in Connecticut and Illinois Embrace It: Justice for All – Cleveland Plain Dealer
A Look at High-Profile Police-Related Deaths of US Blacks – Associated Press
Woman Who Sent Texts Urging Suicide Guilty of Manslaughter – Associated Press
The Supreme Court Phone Location Case Will Decide the Future of Privacy – Motherboard Column
JUNE 15, 2017
Court Disbars Lawyer Linked to Treasurer’s Office Bribery Scam – Columbus Dispatch
Key Figure in Ohio Treasury Scheme Permanently Disbarred – Toledo Blade
Ohio Supreme Court Suspends Sherman Attorney’s License – Cleveland Jewish News
Overturned Convictions Could Cost Ohio More Under Budget Proposal – Dayton Daily News
Online School Sues Ohio Board After Vote on $60M Repayment – Associated Press
Kraus Scores Win – Sandusky Register
Judge Rules in Favor of OU in Police Officer Overtime Case – Athens Messenger
With the Help of Her Dog, Woman Testifies at Rape Trial – Columbus Dispatch
Video Expert Testifies Car Accelerated Before Tensing Fired Fatal Shot – Cincinnati Enquirer
Why Ray Tensing’s Attorney Keeps Asking About Marijuana – Cincinnati Enquirer
Defense to Present Its Case in Ohio Police Shooting Retrial – Associated Press
Judges Must Obey Appeals Courts – Salem News Editorial
Cuyahoga County Bail Reform Effort to Get Grant for Jail Population Study: Justice for All – Cleveland Plain Dealer
Legislation Would Let ECOT Delay $60M Repayment – Columbus Dispatch
Funding Plan Would Hurt Cities – Canton Repository Editorial
Sheriff Declares State of Emergency at Jail, Portune Ponders Necessity – Cincinnati Enquirer
County Unveils $5.7 Million Upgrade to 173-Year-Old Courthouse – Fremont News-Messenger
Full Sixth Circuit to Decide Fate of Ohio’s Execution Protocol – Courthouse News Service
U.S. Appeals Court Debates Ohio Executions – Toledo Blade
National Coalition Joins Cleveland Fight to Save Fannie Lewis Law – Cleveland Plain Dealer
Zuckerberg-Backed Data Trove Exposes the Injustices of Criminal Justice – Wired
Judge Faces Legal Quagmire in Teen Texting Suicide Trial – Associated Press
Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Gableman Stepping Down – Associated Press
Justice Neil Gorsuch Offers Early Clues to Supreme Court Tenure – USA Today
JUNE 14, 2017
Ohio Supreme Court to Hear Arguments in Tyrone Noling Case; Death Row Inmate Seeks Further DNA Tests – Akron Beacon Journal
Aliza Sherman’s Former Attorney Gets Law License Yanked After Felony Conviction – Cleveland Plain Dealer
Former Cuyahoga County Judge Lance Mason Should Be Permanently Disbarred, State Board Says – Cleveland Plain Dealer
Springfield Teen’s Case Among Many Affected by Supreme Court Decision – Springfield Journal-News
Visiting Judge Appointed in Lawsuit over County Sales Tax – Elyria Chronicle Telegram
Fate of New Perry County Court Rests with Kasich – Columbus Daily Reporter
ECOT Wants $60M Ruling Tossed, Claims State Board Met Illegally – Columbus Dispatch
9th District Affirms Father’s Involuntary Manslaughter Sentence in 4-Year-Old’s Shooting Death – Akron Legal News
Teen Who Shot Brother Won’t Be Tried as Adult – Toledo Blade
Officials from Coroner’s Office, CPD Expected to Testify at Tensing Retrial – Cincinnati Enquirer
Audrey DuBose Makes Quiet, Brief Appearance at Protest – Cincinnati Enquirer
Yvette McGee Brown: Diversion Option Works for Addicts, Community – Columbus Dispatch Guest Column
Couple Seeks Protective Order in County Engineer Lawsuit – Athens Messenger
Appeals Court Hears Arguments over Ohio’s Execution Method – Associated Press
Ohio Budget Pulls $35 Million from Cities to Spend on Opioid Crisis – Cleveland Plain Dealer
Nominee for Northern Ohio U.S. Attorney Gets Bipartisan Support in a Partisan Time – Kent WKSU Radio
Statewide Violent Offender Registry Disputed – Toledo Blade
Law Firm Paid by Ohio GOP Ordered to Pay $1,500 in Case over Kasich Rival – Columbus Dispatch
Justices Strike down Gender Differences in Citizenship Law – Associated Press
Cleveland Hopes Moonlighting Police Officers Voluntarily Wear Body Cameras After Union Killed Study – Cleveland Plain Dealer
Moonlighting Police Leave Body Cameras Behind – Associated Press
JUNE 13, 2017
State school board votes to recover $60 million from ECOT online school – Cleveland Plain Dealer
ECOT ordered to repay $60 million for inflating attendance – Columbus Dispatch
Ohio Board to Online Charter School: Pay Back Disputed $60M – Associated Press
Judges Must Obey Appeals Courts – Wheeling (WVa) Intelligencer editorial
Judge in New Miami speed camera case: More issues to be resolved – Dayton Daily News
Release pipeline protest reports – Toledo Blade editorial
Expungement denies legitimate review of records – Columbus Dispatch column
County drug program is model for state effort – Toledo Blade
ACLU Ohio director retires after 27 years of battles – Dayton Daily News
Expert: Tensing’s statements don’t match bodycam video – Cincinnati Enquirer
New Middletown judge to take oath of office Friday – Dayton Daily News
Fairfield County judge receives professionalism award – Lancaster Eagle-Gazette
MacMillan to become Toledo Bar president – Toledo Blade
Longtime Akron trial lawyer remembered – Akron Legal News
Agnes Gund’s artful move helps fund a criminal justice reform effort – Crain’s Cleveland Business
Jim Obergefell opens PrideFest with keynote about equal justice – Milwaukee Independent
Trial Over Suicide and Texting Lays Bare Pain of 2 Teenagers – New York Times
How Computers Are Harming Criminal Justice – New York Times
JUNE 12, 2017
Pursue school’s ill-gained loot – Columbus Dispatch editorial
ECOT owes. Start the payback – Akron Beacon Journal editorial
Death-penalty trial to begin after tricky process of selecting Franklin County jury – Columbus Dispatch
Not the worst of the worst, or why Ohio should spare from execution those with severe mental illness – Akron Beacon Journal editorial
Ohio will pay man after judge refused to release him from prison – Associated Press
Police sergeant’s testimony ‘a gift from heaven’ for Ray Tensing – Cincinnati Enquirer
Attorney sued for alleged ‘weekend raid’ of clients, joining new firm – Dayton Daily News
Child-porn victims often never heal, prosecutors say – Columbus Dispatch
EHOVE students seal the deal for local judges – Sandusky Register
Lorain County Probate Judge Walther wins award – Lorain Morning Journal
Students demonstrate constitutional knowledge at state showcase – Lisbon Morning Journal
Justices uphold Ohio commercial tax – Columbus Dispatch
50 years after Loving, 1 in 6 new couples are racially mixed – Associated Press
Seizing on Opioid Crisis, a Drug Maker Lobbies Hard for Its Product – New York Times
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