The convictions and death sentence of a Cleveland serial killer were affirmed by the Ohio Supreme Court last week. Anthony Sowell, who kidnapped and murdered 11 women and then buried or concealed their bodies at his home on Imperial Avenue in Cleveland’s east side, was arrested in 2009 when police investigating a rape complaint against [...]
The 10th District Court of Appeals affirmed a Franklin County man’s aggravated murder conviction. The defendant, Jonathan Hairston, appealed from the judgment of the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas, where he was convicted on the murder charge with gun specifications. Hairston claimed that his conviction was not supported by sufficient evidence nor that the [...]
The dismissal of an action in mandamus was affirmed by the Ohio Supreme Court in a recent decision that addressed an appeal from a man who pleaded guilty to aggravated murder. The defendant, Daniel Littlepage, appealed from the judgment of the 1st District Court of Appeals where he was denied a writ of mandamus in [...]
The United States Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit recently granted the habeas corpus petition of a death row inmate and ordered a resentencing hearing. Percy “June” Hutton was convicted in 1986 of the aggravated murder of Derek “Ricky” Mitchell and the attempted murder of Samuel Simmons Jr. along with two counts of kidnapping [...]
A divided panel of three judges in the 10th District Court of Appeals vacated a Franklin County man’s aggravated murder conviction this week. “The evidence does not support a finding that the killing was done as the result of prior calculation and design,” Judge Gary Tyack wrote on behalf of the court of appeals’ majority. [...]