State v. Williams

Citations

• 2018 Ohio 1358

Syllabus

Defendant, sentenced to death for aggravated murder, appeals trial court's denial of his motion for a new mitigation trial on the basis that a recent United States Supreme Court decision, Hurst v. Florida, rendered Ohio's capital sentencing scheme unconstitutional. Ohio's death-penalty scheme did not violate the defendant's Sixth Amendment right to a trial by impartial jury where the law required the jury to make the critical findings that rendered the defendant eligible for the death penalty.