DOJ Announces Commitment to Public Defenders, Legal Aid

(The Blog of Legal Times © 6/24/2009)

Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. today outlined a plan in which the Department of Justice seeks to expand its commitment to improving legal services for indigent criminal defendants.

Even Now, There’s Risk in ‘Driving While Black’

(The New York Times © 6/14/2009)

The experience of being mistaken for a criminal is almost a rite of passage for African-American men.

Drugs Won the War

(The New York Times © 6/13/2009)

This year marks the 40th anniversary of President Richard Nixon’s start of the war on drugs, and it now appears that drugs have won.

Man wrongfully convicted in rapes wins pardon

(The Columbus Dispatch © 4/8/2009)

DNA testing freed him from prison in 2004 after 23 years, but he remained shackled in a legal limbo that offered him little hope for the future.

3 freed by DNA tests push reform

(The Columbus Dispatch © 4/2/2009)

A Senate committee was smacked with a sobering dose of reality yesterday from three Columbus men who were improperly imprisoned for a combined 53 years and now want to prevent the same thing from happening to others.

Cases Accepted for Review in the Ohio Supreme Court

Congressional Hearing on Adam Walsh Act

On March 10, 2009, the U.S. House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Crime held a hearing on the barriers to states’ compliance with the federal Adam Walsh Act.

Plain Dealer columnist Regina Brett given Cleveland bar association Liberty Bell Award for supporting open discovery

(Cleveland.com © 5/30/2009)

Plain Dealer columnist Regina Brett's support of the legal process called open discovery has earned her the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association's first-ever Liberty Bell Award.

Crestliner on death row may get chance to clear name

(Mansfield News Journal © 6/3/09)

Convicted killer Kevin Keith has long maintained his innocence.

Ohio court sets 2 additional execution dates

(Ohio.com © 6/3/2009)

The Ohio Supreme Court has set execution dates for two killers on death row, bringing to seven the number of executions scheduled this year.