HARSHBARGER, Justice:
Bias' two-day 1980 Logan County jury trial resulted in a conviction for first degree murder without recommendation of mercy. His appeal claims ineffective assistance of counsel and erroneous instructions about the burden of proof for insanity defenses.
Lennie Sawyers, defendant's mother, was brutally murdered on October 23, 1968 in her home. She had multiple stab wounds and had been beaten with two skillets. Bias, a Cleveland resident...
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