ELLIS v. STATE

No. 91-1329.

64 Ohio St.3d 391 (1992)

ELLIS, APPELLEE, v. THE STATE OF OHIO, APPELLANT.

Supreme Court of Ohio.

Decided August 19, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wristen & Ucker Co., L.P.A., Ellen L. Wristen and David A. Ucker, for appellee.

Lee I. Fisher, Attorney General, and Simon B. Karas; Michael Miller, Prosecuting Attorney, and William J. Owen, for appellant.


Per Curiam.

In spite of the long and tortuous path this case has taken through the judicial system, our attention is now directed to a single issue: whether appellee had a bona fide claim of self-defense when he used non-lethal force to defend himself in response to an attack by a commercial landlord who allegedly struck appellee as he attempted to enter the landlord's business premises in order to retrieve his stepson from an altercation within. For...

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