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Court affirms offender’s conviction because preindictment delay did not harm his defense
The Supreme Court of Ohio on Oct. 14 upheld the involuntary manslaughter conviction of a Clermont County man who was prosecuted 16 years after the death of a woman, who ultimately died from injuries she suffered as an infant. The Supreme Court found Scott Wilson could not prove the State’s delay in indicting him harmed his abi ... (full story)
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A freed man faces life back in prison after a Supreme Court ruling on the First Step Act
WASHINGTON (AP) — Two years after his release from prison, Patrick Dewayne Smith spends Sundays with his family in a modest brick church with a white steeple in rural Tennessee. He works two jobs. He goes to ball games to cheer for nieces and nephews he had never met. After serving 13 years for a nonviolent drug conviction, he ... (full story)