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Indictment after guilty plea accepted did not violate double jeopardy
A Knox County man’s constitutional rights were not violated when a trial judge accepted his guilty plea but declined to sentence him after the prosecution discovered that the charge had been brought using a procedure not authorized by Ohio law, the Supreme Court of Ohio ruled Oct. 13.
After the Knox County Prosecutor&rsquo ... (full story)
State
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)