| Case No. | Case Caption | Case Status | Date
Accepted | Case Issue |
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2019-0158
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State of Ohio
v.
Dewayne R. Fisher
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OPEN
(Held)
|
3/20/2019
| Is there a statutory authority for the imposition of community-control sanctions for one felony offense to be served consecutive to, or following the completion of, a prison or jail term for another felony offense? |
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2019-0035
|
State of Ohio
v.
Bryan I. Williams
|
OPEN
(Held)
|
3/6/2019
| Whether a trial court may impose a term of residential or nonresidential community control sanctions on one felony count, to be served consecutively to a term of imprisonment imposed on another count. |
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2018-1831
|
State of Ohio
v.
Michael Smith
|
OPEN
|
3/20/2019
| Proposition of Law No. I: Evidence of prior acts pertaining to criminal charges which resulted in acquittal should be barred from admission in a subsequent criminal case. Accordingly, this Court should reject Dowling and its progeny and impose a per se bar upon the admission of acquittal evidence in any subsequent criminal case. |
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2018-1831
|
State of Ohio
v.
Michael Smith
|
OPEN
|
3/20/2019
| Proposition of Law No. II: The admission of irrelevant, highly prejudicial evidence of a 30-year-old acquittal for which the transcripts and complete record are unattainable contravenes the test articulated by this Court in State v. Williams, 134 Ohio St.3d 521, 2012-Ohio-5695, 983 N.E.2d 1278, requiring retrial. |
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2018-1814
|
State of Ohio
v.
Gerald Pendergrass
|
OPEN
|
3/6/2019
| Proposition of Law: The higher felony level of unlawful sexual conduct with a minor that is provided for in R.C. 2907.04(B)(4) applies only when an offender has been convicted of a qualifying offense before—not after—the newly indicted conduct. |
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2018-1778
|
State of Ohio
v.
Sharon D. Fips
|
OPEN
|
3/20/2019
| PROPOSITION OF LAW I : A new trial is the appropriate remedy when a reviewing court determines that a criminal conviction is not supported by the manifest weight of the evidence. |
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2018-1718
|
State of Ohio
v.
Kysean Cordell Lee
|
OPEN
(Held)
|
1/23/2019
| Whether the offenses of Possession of Heroin and Aggravated Possession of Drugs merge when the two substances are combined in the same container to create a compound drug not intended to be separated prior to use and the quantity of each individual drug is not distinguished. |
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2018-1711
|
State of Ohio
v.
Seth Mize
|
OPEN
(Held)
|
2/20/2019
| First Proposition of Law: The trial court erred by imposing a sentence not authorized by statute. |
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2018-1707
|
Sandra L. White
v.
Bureau of Workers' Compensation, et al.
|
OPEN
|
2/20/2019
| Proposition of Law No. 1: THE “COMING AND GOING” RULE DOES NOT APPLY
IN OHIO WORKER’S COMPENSATION CLAIMS WHERE THE CLAIMANT IS
NEITHER COMING TO OR GOING FROM THEIR PLACE OF EMPLOYMENT,
BUT ARE ON AN ADMITTED PERSONAL ERRAND OF THEIR OWN, AND THE
APPROPRIATE REVIEW IS WHETHER OR NOT CLAIMANT'S INJURIES WERE
RECEIVED IN THE COURSE OF AND ARISING OUT OF HER EMPLOYMENT
WITH QUEST.
|
|
2018-1670
|
State of Ohio
v.
Melissa J. Weber
|
OPEN
(Held)
|
1/23/2019
| “WHETHER A TRIAL COURT MAY IMPOSE A TERM OF RESIDENTIAL OR NONRESIDENTIAL COMMUNITY CONTROL SANCTIONS ON ONE FELONY COUNT, TO BE SERVED CONSECUTIVELY TO A TERM OF IMPRISONMENT ON ANOTHER COUNT." |
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