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Category Archives: Jeff Wogenstahl
Covid-19 on Death Row
Covid-19 has come to Ohio’s death row: 23 death row inmates have tested positive for the virus. None of the cases is in the block where Jeffrey Wogenstahl is incarcerated. The inmates who have contracted the virus are in isolation. … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, Chillicothe Correctional Institution, criminal justice, death penalty, death row, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Ohio, USA
Tagged August 2020, capital punishment, Chillicothe Correctional Institution, coronavirus, Covid-19, criminal justice, death penalty, death row, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Ohio, USA
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What the State Suppressed about Justin Horn*
According to Peggy Garrett’s testimony, Justin Horn (Peggy’s son) was away from their apartment for the weekend when her daughter, Amber, went missing. Peggy stated that Justin left on the Friday afternoon, and did not return until about 3 pm … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Justin Horn, official misconduct, Ohio, USA, wrongful conviction
Tagged Amber Garrett, capital punishment, death penalty, December 2017, Eric Horn, Hamilton County, Hamilton County Prosecutor's office, Harrison, Harrison Police Department, impeaching evidence, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Justin Horn, official misconduct, Ohio, Peggy Garrett, police records, USA, wrongful conviction
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The Majority Judges Erred
Jeffrey Wogenstahl has appealed an unfavorable Ohio Supreme Court ruling.* Last month five of the judges rejected his claim that Ohio lacked jurisdiction to try him for murder; but Chief Justice O’Connor wrote a compelling dissent in his support (see … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, Indiana, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, jurisdiction, Ohio Supreme Court, USA
Tagged Appellant Jeffrey Wogenstahl’s Motion for Rehearing and/or Reconsideration, August 2017, Bruce Wheeler, capital punishment, Carl J. Schmidt M.D; M.P.H., Chief Justice Maureen O'Connor, criminal justice, death penalty, Gary A. Rini M.F.S., Indiana, ineffective trial counsel, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, jurisdiction, Ohio, Ohio Supreme Court, USA
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Ronald Phillips: Breakdown of Criminal Justice
A ruling by a federal court makes it more likely that executions will resume in Ohio on July 26, despite warnings that the state’s drug protocol could cause immense pain. The first person due to face this pain is Ronald Phillips.[i] Phillips … Continue reading
Posted in attorneys, capital punishment, Chillicothe Correctional Institution, criminal justice, death penalty, executions, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, mitigating factors, mitigation, Ohio, prison staff, Ronald Phillips, USA
Tagged American Civil Liberties Union, attorneys, childhood abuse, criminal justice, death row inmates, execution drugs, executions, Governor Kasich, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, July 2017, jurors, mitigating factors, Ohio, personality disorder, prison staff, psychologists, Ronald Phillips, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, USA
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Jeff’s Jurors Reconsider
Jeffrey Wogenstahl claims his conviction represents a fundamental miscarriage of justice: he states that if the evidence now available to him had been heard at his trial “no reasonable juror would have found [him] guilty”.[i] Such an assertion may sound … Continue reading
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Tagged Amber Garrett, capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, drug selling, Eric Horn, eyewitness identification, forensic hair testimony, forensic pathology, forensics, innocence, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, June 2017, jurors, miscarriage of justice, Ohio, Peggy Garrett, perjury, suspects, USA
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Forensics: a Deeply Troublesome Case
Alongside potentially exculpatory and impeaching evidence that had been retrieved earlier this year, three professional reports about Jeffrey Wogenstahl’s case were filed with the Ohio Supreme Court last month. In one, Gary Rini M.F.S. examines witness testimony and documents from … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, flawed forensics, forensics, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Ohio, police, police investigation, USA
Tagged bloodstain patterns, capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, failure, flawed forensics, forensic science, forensics, Gary Rini M.F.S., innocence, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, justice system, law enforcement, murder, November 2016, Ohio, police investigation, USA, wrongful convictions
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Move to Toledo: “It’s just another prison.”
Jeffrey Wogenstahl, and the other death row inmates at Chillicothe Correctional Institution, Ohio, were told yesterday that they will be moved in the near future. Their destination is Toledo Correctional Institution, which is about 4 miles from Ohio’s northern border with … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, Chillicothe Correctional Institution, criminal justice, death penalty, death row, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Ohio, Toledo Correctional Institution, USA
Tagged aging inmates, birds, capital punishment, Chillicothe Correctional Institution, criminal justice, death penalty, death row, injustice, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Lake Eerie, Mansfield Correctional Institution, Michigan, October 2016, Ohio, prisoners, prisons, Toledo, Toledo Correctional Institution, USA
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The State’s Lack of Consistency
In a reply brief* filed with the Ohio Supreme Court on Tuesday, Jeff pursues his claim that his trial should not have been held in Ohio. This claim is being pursued in addition to his claims of innocence (which are based … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Ohio, USA
Tagged capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, exculpatory evidence, flawed hair evidence, impeaching evidence, injustice, innocence, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, justice system, October 2016, Ohio, police file, subject-matter jurisdiction, suppressed evidence, Supreme Court of Ohio, trial, USA
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Revelations from Police File
Thanks to the persistence of his legal team, Jeffrey Wogenstahl has successfully accessed what is asserted to be the full and complete Harrison Police Department file on his case. Until May 2016, most of this information had been withheld from … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, Hamilton County Prosecutor's office, Harrison Police Department, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, official misconduct, Ohio, police, prosecutorial misconduct, USA
Tagged Amber Garrett, Bruce Wheeler, capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, Eric Horn, Hamilton County Prosecutor's office, Harrison Police Department, illegal drugs, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Justin Horn, October 2016, official misconduct, Ohio, Peggy Garrett, prosecutorial misconduct, USA
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Tell Governor Kasich to stay executions.
Ohio has only paid lip service to the 56 recommendations of the Ohio Supreme Court’s Joint Task Force to Review the Administration of Ohio’s Death Penalty. A recent report found: “The death penalty in Ohio remains plagued by the very same … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, executions, injustice, innocence, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Ohio, USA, wrongful convictions
Tagged A Relic of the Past: Ohio’s Dwindling Death Penalty, capital punishment, criminal justice system, death penalty, executions, Governor Kasich, injustice, innocence, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Joint Task Force to Review the Administration of Ohio’s Death Penalty, October 2016, Ohio, Ohioans to Stop Executions, pending executions, USA
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