Williams v. Dept. of Rehab. & Corr.
Citations
- 2018 Ohio 3604
Syllabus
Negligence, Wrongful Death- An inmate, in defendant's custody who initiated a fight, died after being stabbed by the inmate with whom he fought. In overruling plaintiff's objections to the magistrate's decision, which recommended judgment in favor of defendant, the court found defendant lacked notice of threats or danger to the decedent. The court also found no error in the magistrate's determination that the decedent's contributory negligence in initiating the fight outweighed any potential negligence on the part of defendant. The court adopted the magistrate's decision and granted judgment to defendant.
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- holding “that a defendant who simultaneously possesses multiple objects of drug paraphernalia commits only one violation of A.R.S. § 13-3415(A)”
- considering relevant statute’s “place in the statutory scheme” to conclude that it was most “reasonably read as a complement to other drug laws”
- finding one violation when defendant had \baggies and [a] scale\
- different items of paraphernalia all found in trunk of car
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Judges: McGrath
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