Hearing impaired juror at center of argument before Supreme Court justices
Among the arguments heard by Supreme Court of Ohio justices during the morning of Tuesday, November 17th, at the Ohio Judicial Center, the state defended an Ottawa County Common Pleas Court decision to seat a hearing-impaired juror against the will of a defense lawyer in a 2007 jury trial.
Despite the claims of Scott Speer, who was subsequently convicted on a merged charge of aggravated vehicular homicide and sentenced to four years in prison, that the trial court abused its discretion by placing the rights of juror Linda Leow-Johannsen before his own, prosecutors for the state have maintained he was not prejudiced by the move... to read more go here.
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