Today, September 4 2025, marks exactly seven years since Jeffrey Wogenstahl received a significant, favorable ruling from a Sixth Circuit Court. It was this ruling that finally led to Jeff’s evidentiary hearing last fall.

Judge Christian Jenkins is now mulling over the evidence in Jeff’s case, getting ever closer to delivering his judgment.

We trust that Judge Jenkins will acknowledge the extensive prosecutor misconduct in this case. Sadly, official misconduct correlates strongly with murder case exonerations: nearly 75% such exonerations involve official misconduct.*

Now is a particularly stressful time for Jeff. The impending decision could at last afford him relief; but he must wait to find out if this is so. After 32½ years on Ohio’s death row, it is hard to keep hope at bay, but Jeff has learnt from bitter experience that he must try to do this.

And so Jeff tries to keep himself occupied in order to avoid thinking about his case at all.

We wish him success.

* From the National Registry of Exonerations. Go down the left rail on the Explore Exonerations page and open up Crime; tick the Murder box. Move back up to Contributing Factors and open it to view the contribution to wrongful Murder convictions made by different factors, including Official Misconduct. Note that Perjury or False Accusation also correlates strongly with wrongful Murder convictions.