Cowherd v. McGuffey

Citations

• 2025 Ohio 387

Syllabus

HABEAS CORPUS — BAIL — OHIO CONSTITUTION, SECTION 9, ARTICLE 1 — R.C. 2937.011 — PUBLIC SAFETY: Pursuant to the Ohio Constitution, Article 1, Section 9 and R.C. 2937.011, a trial court is permitted to consider public safety when determining the appropriate amount of bail to impose. Where the record contains no evidence that petitioner posed any additional risk to public safety, where petitioner has been employed at the same company since 2021 and has ties to the community, and where the trial court ignored petitioner's financial resources and ability to pay, the $1,000,000 bail imposed by the trial court was excessive and the trial court erred in imposing it, and therefore, petitioner's petition for a writ of habeas corpus must be granted.