STATE v. BELEW

No. 2013-0711.

140 Ohio St.3d 221 (2014)

2014-Ohio-2964

THE STATE OF OHIO, Appellee, v. BELEW, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Ohio.

Decided July 10, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Julia Bates , Lucas County Prosecuting Attorney, and David Cooper and Michael D. Bahner , Assistant Prosecuting Attorneys, for appellee.

Timothy Young , Ohio Public Defender, and Stephen P. Hardwick and William J. Mooney , Assistant Public Defenders, for appellant.

Spengler Nathanson, P.L.L., and Laurie J. Pangle , urging reversal for amicus curiae the Arms Forces.

McDonald Hopkins, L.L.C., and R. Jeffrey Pollock , urging reversal for amici curiae Ohio Suicide Prevention Foundation, National Alliance on Mental Illness of Ohio, and Ohio Empowerment Coalition, Inc.

Ohio Disability Rights Law and Policy Center, Inc., and Kristen Henry , urging reversal for amici curiae Disability Rights Ohio and National Disability Rights Network.


{¶ 1} The cause is dismissed as having been improvidently accepted.

PFEIFER, O'DONNELL, KENNEDY, and FRENCH, JJ., concur.

O'CONNOR, C.J., and LANZINGER and O'NEILL, JJ., dissent.

LANZINGER, J., dissenting.

{¶ 2} I respectfully dissent from the court's decision to dismiss this case as having been improvidently accepted. Amici curiae in support of appellant, Jeffery Belew, filed two memoranda in...

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