The 11th District Court of Appeals ruled recently that a defendant was not entitled to a resentencing hearing after his death penalty was modified and reduced to life imprisonment. The appellant, ...

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The Official Law Journal for Local, County, State, US District and US Bankruptcy Courts. To the right are listed all legal happenings in Summit County by court. The Akron Legal News offers daily ...

A panel of judges in the 8th District Court of Appeals recently affirmed the judgment of the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas, which classified defendant Carl Nelson as a sexual predator. In his ...

AKRON––Summit County Juvenile Court Judge Linda Tucci Teodosio has announced that on March 27 the court received notification from the Ohio Supreme Court that its Family Reunification through Recovery ...

She is from a long line of legal professionals and now Mahoning County Area Court Judge Molly Johnson plans to carry on the tradition of public service begun by her great, great grandfather Nils P.

It's one of the most under-publicized policies of some of the biggest U.S. retailers: sometimes they give customers full refunds and let them keep unwanted items too. Returnless refunds are a tool ...

Not all e-ticketing is for airline tickets. While still rare in Ohio, state law and court rules allow police departments to issue electronically produced traffic citations. In two amendments to ...

The Supreme Court of Ohio recently affirmed the decision to impose consecutive sentences leading to a 60-year prison term for a man who went on a two-month robbery and kidnapping spree in Hamilton ...

A panel of three judges in the 8th District Court of Appeals recently ruled that there was not enough evidence of prior calculation and design to support the aggravated murder conviction of Antonio ...