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Author Archives: Justice for Willie
Do they deserve to kill?
Warren Keith Henness is scheduled to be executed in Ohio on Wednesday, February 13, 2019. He claims innocence of the murder of which he was convicted, but is seeking only to have his death sentence commuted to incarceration, without death. … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, death penalty, executions, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Ohio, USA, Warren Keith Henness
Tagged 2019, Bryan Stevenson, capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, death row, executions, forensic evidence, Governor Mike DeWine, ineffective trial counsel, January 2019, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Ohio, Ohio Adult Parole Authority, police misconduct, post conviction lawyers, post-traumatic stress disorder, unreliable witnesses, USA, Warren Keith Henness
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Scope for Pitfalls Ahead
2018 has brought Jeffrey Wogenstahl a huge breakthrough – a federal court decision that spelled out the travesty that was his trial. As Jeff knows only too well, however, there is scope for pitfalls ahead. If he needed any proof … Continue reading
Posted in Anthony Aponovitch, capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, DNA testing, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Ohio, Ohio Supreme Court, USA, wrongful convictions
Tagged Anthony Aponovitch, appeals, capital punishment, criminal justice, Cuyahoga County Court, death penalty, death row, December 2018, DNA testing, execution, innocence, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Ohio, Ohio Southern District Court, Ohio Supreme Court, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, USA, wrongful convictions
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Exculpatory Evidence Suppressed
On October 25, 2005, Derrick Jamison left Ohio’s death row; exactly 20 years before that he was sentenced to death in Hamilton County, Ohio. The courts had recognized that the Hamilton County Prosecutor’s Office unfairly suppressed exculpatory information about his … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, Cincinnati, criminal justice, death penalty, exculpatory evidence, Hamilton County Prosecutor's office, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Ohio, USA
Tagged capital punishment, Cincinnati Police Department, criminal justice, death penalty, death row, Derrick Jamison, exculpatory evidence, Hamilton County, Hamilton County Prosecutor's office, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, November 2018, Ohio, prosecutorial misconduct, suppressed evidence, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, USA
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Shadow of Execution Date Lifted
Jeffrey Wogenstahl has been granted an indefinite stay of execution by the Ohio Supreme Court (see Supreme Court of Ohio Case Announcements October 24, 2018): 1995-0042. State v. Wogenstahl. Hamilton App. No. C-930222. On appellant’s motion to reopen direct appeal. Motion … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, death penalty, death row, executions, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Ohio, USA
Tagged Chillicothe Correctional Institution, death row, FBI hair testimony, hair analysis, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, jurisdiction, jurors, jury, October 2018, official misconduct, Ohio, Ohio Southern District Court, Ohio Supreme Court, police file, stay of execution, suppressed evidence, Supreme Court of Ohio, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, USA
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Ripples of Sorrow
Jeffrey Wogenstahl’s trial was held in 1993. The following year in the state of Mississippi, another capital murder trial took place which was to change the life of one of the jurors forever.* In July, 1994, Lindy Lou Isonhood found … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, executions, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, jurors, Lindy Lou Isonhood,, Ohio, post-traumatic stress disorder, USA
Tagged Bobby Wilcher, capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, executions, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, jurors, Lindy Lou Isonhood,, Lindy Lou Juror Number 2, Mississippi, official misconduct, Ohio, post-traumatic stress disorder, prosecutorial misconduct, September 2018, USA
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No reasonable fact finder would have found him guilty
At long last a court has taken seriously Jeffrey Wogenstahl’s claim that his trial was unfair!* The United States Court of Appeal for the Sixth Circuit has sent Jeff’s case back to the district court. The focus of the district … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Ohio, USA, wrongful conviction
Tagged Amber Garrett, capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, Eric Horn, flawed hair testimony, hair analysis, Hamilton County, innocence, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Ohio, Peggy Garrett, September 2018, Southern District of Ohio Court, suppressed evidence, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, USA, wrongful conviction
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Amber Garrett: Sold for Fifteen Hundred Dollars?
The prosecutors at Jeffrey Wogenstahl’s trial suppressed reports suggesting that Amber Garrett’s mother, Peggy, sold Amber for fifteen hundred dollars to pay off drug debts.[i] Peggy Garrett’s drug selling and use were known to Jeff’s prosecutors, but they failed to … Continue reading
Posted in drugs, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, jurors, Ohio, Peggy Garrett, prodecutorial misconduct, suppressed evidence, USA
Tagged Amber Garrett, August 2018, drug debts, drug trafficking, evidence suppressed, Indiana, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, jurors, LSD, Methaqualone, Ohio, Peggy Garrett, police records, prosecutorial misconduct, suppressed evidence, trial, USA, wrongful conviction
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Fundamental Flaws
We are pleased to report that Ohio Governor John Kasich has commuted the death sentence of Raymond Tibbetts to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Citing “fundamental flaws” at the sentencing stage of Tibbetts’ trial, the Governor explained: “[T]he … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, jurors, Ohio, Raymond Tibbetts, USA
Tagged capital punishment, death penalty, Gary Otte, Governor John Kasich, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, July 2018, jurors, life in prison without the possibility of parole, mitigating evidence, Ohio, Ohio Parole Board, prosecutorial misconduct, Raymond Tibbetts, Robert Van Hook, Ronald Phillips, Ross Geiger, USA
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A Time of Elevated Torture
Robert Van Hook has been on Ohio’s death row longer than Jeffrey Wogenstahl. The state plans to kill Van Hook on Wednesday, July 18. He has extended family and friends who will mourn his death; they are the unintended victims … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, executions, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, mental illness, Ohio, Robert Van Hook, USA
Tagged borderline personality disorder, capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, executions, Governor Kasich, Hamilton County, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, July 2018, mental illness, mitigation, Ohio, Ohioans to Stop Executions, OTSE, post-traumatic stress disorder, Robert Van Hook, substance abuse disorder, torture, USA
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The State’s Blind Spot*
The State of Ohio has so far failed to acknowledge extensive, significant evidence that was unconstitutionally withheld from Jeffrey Wogenstahl and only recently obtained by him; the State instead chooses to quote the so-called legal “facts” of Jeff’s case that … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, Hamilton County, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, official misconduct, Ohio, USA
Tagged Amber Garrett, capital punishment, constitutional rights, criminal justice, death penalty, Dr. Schmidt, execution, Gary A. Rini M.F.S., Hamilton County Court of Common Pleas, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, June 2018, official misconduct, Ohio, State misconduct, suppressed evidence, USA
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Justice for Jeffrey Wogenstahl 