STATE v. SOWELL

No. 2011-1921.

148 Ohio St.3d 554 (2016)

2016-Ohio-8025

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

Supreme Court of Ohio.

Decided December 8, 2016.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Timothy J. McGinty , Cuyahoga County Prosecuting Attorney, and Christopher D. Schroeder and T. Allan Regas , Assistant Prosecuting Attorneys, for appellee.

Gamso, Helmick & Hoolahan and Jeffrey M. Gamso ; and Robert L. Tobin , Cuyahoga County Public Defender, and Erika Cunliffe , Assistant Public Defender, for appellant.

Freda J. Levenson , urging reversal for amicus curiae, American Civil Liberties Union.

O'NEILL, J., dissents, with an opinion joined in part by O'CONNOR, C.J.


{¶ 1} Anthony Sowell appeals from the judgment of the Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court in connection with 11 capital convictions and sentences of death arising out of the serial killing of 11 women in Cleveland, Ohio. Sometime before October 28, 2009, Sowell kidnapped and murdered these 11 women and buried or concealed...

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