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Tag Archives: United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
A Disturbing Ruling
A Sixth Circuit appeals court panel ruled this month that Ohio’s three-drug execution protocol does not violate the Eighth Amendment prohibition against cruel and unusual punishments. The panel’s decision is at odds with federal magistrate Judge Merz’s conclusion earlier this … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, executions, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, lethal-injection drugs, Ohio, USA
Tagged cruel and unusual punishment, David Stebbins, death penalty, Doug Berman, Eighth Amendment, execution drugs, Governor Mike DeWine, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Judge Merz, midazolam, October 2019, Ohio, pulmonary edema, Robert Dunham, suffocation, torture, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, USA
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
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
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
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
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
