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Tag Archives: innocence
Optimism in Ohio
The last few months have seen Ohio edging ever closer to repealing the death penalty. In December Governor DeWine remarked, “Lethal injection appears to us to be impossible from a practical point of view today.” Executions had then been on hold … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Ohio, USA
Tagged 2021, capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, death penalty abolition, executions, exonerations, February 2021, Governor DeWine, House Bill 136, innocence, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, mental illness, Ohio, public opinion, USA, wrongful convictions
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Jeff’s 60th Birthday
Today, November 23, 2020, Jeffrey Wogenstahl turns 60. He never celebrates his birthday: it’s too harsh a reminder that soon after his 31st birthday, someone murdered a little girl that he knew. Amber Garrett’s body was found in Bright, Indiana, … Continue reading
Posted in Amber Garrett, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Ohio, prosecutorial misconduct, USA
Tagged Amber Garrett, Bright, capital punishment, Hamilton County Common Pleas Court, Indiana, innocence, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Judge Christian Jenkins, Judge Patrick Dinkelacker, November 2020, Ohio, prosecutorial misconduct, United States Court of Appeal for the Sixth Circuit, USA, wrongful convictions
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Will Ohio’s Death Penalty End?
Four times in the last decade Ohio’s Democrat Senator Nickie Antonio has sponsored a bill to abolish the death penalty in the state, without success. This year feels different. With executions halted because lethal injection drugs are unobtainable, pressure is … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Ohio, USA
Tagged capital punishment, Columbus Dispatch, Conservatives Concerned about the Death Penalty, criminal justice, death penalty, deterrence, expense, Governor DeWine, innocence, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, lethal injection drugs, March 2020, Ohio, Ohio Department of Correction and Rehabilitation, racial bias, religion, Republicans, Senator Nickie Antonio, USA
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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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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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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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US Death Penalty: Systemic Problems
It is not surprising that public opinion in the USA is increasingly recoiling from the death penalty: the annual Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC) report reveals continuing “systemic problems” in its implementation: “As use of the death penalty dwindles, one might … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, executions, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Ohio, USA
Tagged 2017, brain damage, capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, Death Penalty Information Center, DPIC, executions, innocence, intellectual disabilities, January 2018, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, mental illness, Ohio, public opinion, trauma, USA, wrongful convictions
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A Dirty Secret
It is a “dirty secret”, known by few, that the American death penalty system is “specifically engineered to ensure that those who are convicted stay convicted, guilty or not.”[i] This is how it works. Death sentences routinely result from poor defense … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, death row, habeas corpus petition, injustice, innocence, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Ohio, torture, USA, wrongful conviction
Tagged capital punishment, Catch-22, clear and convincing evidence, death penalty, death row, defense lawyers, federal court, injustice, innocence, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, new evidence, October 2017, Ohio, prosecutorial misconduct, reasonable diligence, Richard North Patterson, torture, USA, wrongful conviction
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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
Posted in capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, jurors, Ohio, USA
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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Amber’s Disappearance: Evidence Suppressed
The prosecution in Jeffrey Wogenstahl’s case advanced the theory that the victim, Amber Garrett, was snatched hastily from her bed as she slept. However, it appears that to convince the jurors of this theory, prosecutors suppressed significant evidence.* This evidence … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Ohio, suppressed evidence, USA, wrongful conviction
Tagged Amber Garrett, Bright Indiana, capital punishment, Chillicothe Correctional Institution, criminal justice, death penalty, death row, impeached testimony, Indiana, innocence, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, June 2017, Ohio, Peggy Garrett, prosecutorial misconduct, USA, Wogenstahl, wrongful conviction
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