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Category Archives: criminal justice
Eric Horn: Not Lured Away
Troy Beard lived near the home of the victim in Jeffrey Wogenstahl’s case. It was the short distance to Beard’s apartment that Jeffrey Wogenstahl drove Eric Horn in the early hours of November 24, 1991.[i] At Jeff’s trial, Horn claimed … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, miscarriages of justice, Ohio, USA, wrongful conviction
Tagged capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, drug trafficking, Eric Horn, false testimony, Hamilton Court of Common Pleas, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, July 2019, jurors, miscarriages of justice, Ohio, Peggy Garrett, Troy Beard, unreliable witnesses, USA, wrongful convictions
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Wogenstahl is actually innocent.
Jeffrey Wogenstahl has filed a claim of actual innocence* in the Hamilton County Court of Common Pleas. The standard to be met for such a claim is very high, requiring that: “evidence not available or presented at trial, in combination … Continue reading
Posted in actual innocence, capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Ohio, USA
Tagged actual innocence, capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, District Judge, Hamilton County Court of Common Pleas, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Judge Patrick Dinkelacker, June 2019, jurors, miscarriages of justice, Oho, On Motion to Authorize the Filing of a Second or Successive Application for Habeas Corpus. No. 1:17-cv-00298—Thomas M. Rose, Petitioner Wogenstahl’s Amendment to his Successive Post-Conviction Petition, USA, wrongful convictions
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The US Supreme Court’s Exceptional Barbarity
While we were still celebrating increased conservative opposition to the death penalty, the US Supreme Court last month shunted the American death penalty into new, shocking levels of brutality. The opinion is described by various legal analysts as “bloodthirsty”, “exceptionally … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, executions, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Supreme Court of the United States, USA
Tagged Bucklew v. Precythe, capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, Eighth Amendment, executions, Garrett Epps, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Matt Ford, May 2019, Missouri, nitrogen hypoxia, Russell Bucklew, Supreme Court of the United States, torture, US Supreme Court, USA
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Joe Deters’ Omissions
A recent article about the current state of Ohio’s death penalty touches on the case of Jeffrey Wogenstahl. It allows us to glimpse the reaction of the lead prosecutor at Jeff’s trial, Joe Deters, to Jeff’s ongoing claim of innocence. … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Joe Deters, Ohio, USA
Tagged Amber Garrett, April 2019, capital punishment, Cincinnati Enquirer, criminal justice, death penalty, Hamilton County, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Joe Deters, jurors, Ohio, prosecutorial misconduct, Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, USA, wrongful convictions
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Conservatives Opposing the Death Penalty
A Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) seems an unlikely setting for action against the US death penalty: conservatives have hitherto been associated with an unthinking “tough on crime” philosophy that included support for capital punishment. Perhaps all this is set … Continue reading
Posted in Conservatives Concerned about the Death Penalty, criminal justice, death penalty, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Ohio, USA, wrongful convictions
Tagged capital punishment, Conservative Political Action Conference, Conservatives Concerned about the Death Penalty, criminal justice, death penalty, expense, Hannah Cox, innocence, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, limiting government, March 2019, Ohio, sanctity of human life, tax dollars, USA, wrongful convictions
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Cruel and Unusual Punishment
There is very good news from Ohio – executions there have been halted by the new governor, Governor Mike DeWine! Initially Governor DeWine postponed the scheduled execution of Warren Keith Henness; later he stopped other scheduled executions indefinitely. The governor … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, death row, executions, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Ohio, USA
Tagged analgesic, capital punishment, criminal justice, cruel and unusual punishment, death penalty, death row, Derrick Jamison, execution protocol, executions, February 2019, Governor Mike DeWine, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, midazolam, Ohio, pulmonary edema, 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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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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Justice for Jeffrey Wogenstahl 