Appellate cases in the criminal arena frequently focus on the rights of those accused of crimes. It is only logical that this would be the case. The accused has an attorney and is a party to the proceedings. The system strives to ensure that those who are charged with crimes are treated fairly and that their Constitutional rights are protected.
The candidate arrested on the eve of Election Day for stuffing his opponent’s campaign literature down the sewer pleaded guilty Wednesday afternoon during a scheduled pretrial.
A Dublin man infamous in Central Ohio for his strange urine-drinking fetish sits in jail again after he was arrested for violating the terms of his probation for a criminal damaging conviction earlier this year. Alan D. Patton, 60, will remain incarcerated at least until an Aug. 26 court hearing after repeatedly making harassing phone calls to his probation officer, according to assistant city prosecutor Joe Schmansky.
A man appeared in court Monday via a video link from the Delaware County Jail to face charges after police say he robbed a Delaware credit union last week. Leslie E. Williams, 49, of 114 Eaton St., Delaware, pleaded not guilty to aggravated robbery, breaking and entering and domestic violence charges. He turned himself to police Sunday after he was identified using surveillance footage from the CES Credit Union, 33 London Road, on Aug. 10.