The judgment of the Ashtabula County Court of Common Pleas was recently affirmed by the 11th District Court of Appeals, which held that Christopher Soller was properly convicted on two counts of felonious assault despite hearsay evidence that was admitted at his trial.

In a recently released opinion, the 12th District Court of Appeals affirmed maximum consecutive sentences for a man found guilty of molesting his daughter and two young nieces.

Jeffery Todd appealed his 25-year prison sentence from the Clermont County Court of Common Pleas, arguing that he was a first-time offender and should not be subject to such a harsh penalty.

The three-judge appellate panel found that the trial court made all the required findings to support its sentence and rejected Todd’s assertions.

NEW YORK (AP) — Trying a man for murder in the 1979 disappearance of 6-year-old Etan Patz has come with obstacles created by the passage of time: Many witnesses, including the lead detective, have died. Memories of those still alive have faded.

And the piles of investigative records from the case include untold missing documents — some of them in three boxes discovered in a police storage room in just the past few days, even as the trial is well underway.

SALT LAKE CITY — The CEO of a Utah company that has emerged as a key player in a national movement to overhaul the justice system is a repeat offender himself.

Sean Hosman’s dual roles as advocate for change and repeat visitor at county jails provide a striking case study in an expanding national effort to use insurance industry methods to help predict future crimes and steer defendants toward treatment.