The Columbus Dispatch
A former Columbus police officer charged with murder in the fatal shooting of 47-year-old Andre Hill had two or three interactions with Hill in the minutes before the shooting occurred, his attorney said Friday.
Although Adam Coy fired the shots as Hill emerged from the darkened garage of a home, the officer had an initial interaction with Mr. Hill when Mr. Hill was in his car, and some things didn t make sense, defense attorney Mark Collins said.
Collins spoke with reporters after a Franklin County Common Pleas magistrate set bond at $3 million for Coy at his arraignment, where he entered a not-guilty plea.
Despite months of slowdowns and shutdowns of many courthouse functions amid the COVID-19 pandemic, courts across Ohio managed to keep pace with the cases that were filed in 2020.
The 2.18 million cases that were resolved in the state s courts in the first 11 months of the year slightly exceeded the 2.17 million cases that were filed during those months, according to statistics provided by the Ohio Supreme Court. (Numbers for December haven t been compiled.)
That translated into what the Supreme Court refers to as a clearance rate of 100.7%. The courts actually topped the 100.1% clearance rate for the same period in 2019.
The cases included in the statistics run the gamut from small claims lawsuits and traffic offenses to custody battles and violent felonies.