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Tag Archives: wrongful convictions
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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Jurisdiction Ruling: a Reassuring Footnote
A Sixth Circuit court has denied[i] Jeffrey Wogenstahl the opportunity to make a separate appeal to establish whether Ohio had jurisdiction to try him. Jeff wanted to appeal an Ohio Supreme Court’s ruling[ii] from 2017. In that ruling the majority … Continue reading
Posted in criminal justice, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, jurisdiction, Ohio, USA
Tagged capital punishment, conclusive presumption, criminal justice, death penalty, habeas petition, Indiana, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, June 2020, jurisdiction, Justice O'Connor, miscarriages of justice, new judgment, Ohio, Ohio Supreme Court, subject-matter jurisdiction, USA, wrongful convictions
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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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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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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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Not Snatched from her Bed
The prosecutor at Jeffrey Wogenstahl’s trial used his closing argument to impress on the jury that the victim, Amber Garrett, was grabbed from her bed in the middle of the night: “[W]e know from the evidence that Amber Garrett was … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Ohio, prosecutorial misconduct, USA, wrongful convictions
Tagged Amber Garrett, April 2018, Bright Indiana, capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, evidence suppressed, Indiana, injustice, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, misled jury, Ohio, Peggy Garrett, prosecutorial misconduct, suppressed evidence, unfair trials, USA, wrongful convictions
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A Guilty Person Committing More Crimes
We are very pleased that William T. Montgomery is no longer on Ohio’s death row: his death sentence has been commuted to one of life without the possibility of parole. Like Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Montgomery claims he has been wrongly convicted; away from … Continue reading
Posted in crime, criminal justice, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, murder, Ohio, USA, wrongful convictions
Tagged Amber Garrett, commutation, crime prevention, crimes, criminal justice, criminals, fighting crime, Frank Baumgartner, injustice, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Jennifer Thompson, life without the possibility of parole, March 2018, murder, Ohio, serial killers, USA, William T. Montgomery, wrongful convictions
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