Lt. Gov. Jon Husted not running for U.S. Senate, others still considering: Capitol Letter
Updated Jan 28, 2021;
Posted Jan 28, 2021
Ohio Republican Party Chairman Jane Timken, seen here in a 2017 file photo, is considering running for U.S. Senate. (Julie Carr Smyth, Associated Press.)
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He’s out, she might be in: Lt. Gov. Jon Husted announced Wednesday he won’t run for the U.S. Senate next year, while Ohio Republican Party Chairman Jane Timken confirmed her interest in the race, Andrew Tobias reports. Husted said in a statement he wants to be governor someday, and that his current job will help him do that while also making more of an impact.
Ohio Supreme Court to decide limits of Marsy’s Law in kidnapping, rape trial
Updated Jan 27, 2021;
Posted Jan 27, 2021
Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Ohio Supreme Court heard the State v. Montgomery case with teleconferencing technology. (Ohio Channel)
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COLUMBUS, Ohio – Allowing a crime victim to sit at the prosecutor’s table and be introduced as a representative of the state during a kidnapping and rape trial prejudiced the jury against the defendant, his attorney argued before the Ohio Supreme Court on Wednesday.
“This is a case that depended entirely on the credibility of the alleged victim,” said Addison Spriggs, an attorney for Theodis Montgomery, who wants the court to vacate his conviction and order a new trial because she said his trial wasn’t fair.
CANTON Large photos of a happy and vibrant Kerry-Anne Mumford were shown to the man who killed her and dumped her body in a creek.
The adult daughter of the 41-year-old Mumford wanted Scott A. Birch to be forced to confront cheerful photographs of the woman whose life he brutally ended.
During the Birch s sentencing hearing on Friday, Stark County Assistant Prosecutor Dennis Barr displayed the images in front of a video monitor linked to the Stark County Jail, where the defendant stood with his attorney.
The Massillon woman was a daughter, girlfriend, mother of three children. She was cherished by those who sat in Stark County Common Pleas Court, expressing both the great loss they are suffering as well as anger toward Birch.
CANTON Judge Chryssa Hartnett paused during the sentencing hearing of a Nimishillen Township man Wednesday who pleaded guilty to child rape charges.
Hartnett aimed her words at Robert E. Lee, 51, whom she sentenced to 20 years in prison in Stark County Common Pleas Court. I listened to it come out of your own mouth (in statements to police) . I heard you admit the unspeakable things that you did, she said. . This is not a child making an accusation, this is a child finally having enough, bringing it to adults attention and the perpetrator acknowledging it.
Lee pleaded guilty to three charges of rape, two counts of gross sexual imposition and single counts of sexual battery and illegal use of a minor in nudity-oriented material or performance.
CANTON A man pleaded guilty Friday to killing a woman whose body was found in Sandy Creek in Pike Township in June.
Scott A. Birch, 48, who doesn t have a permanent address listed in court records but formerly lived in Ravenna and Minerva City, pleaded guilty to two counts of murder and single counts of felonious assault, tampering with evidence and gross abuse of a corpse.
Birch stabbed 41-year-old Kerry-Anne Mumford multiple times in the neck, according to court records.
The killing happened on June 19 in the 5300 block of Gracemont Street SW.
Stark County Common Pleas Judge Kristin Farmer scheduled Birch s sentencing for Jan. 22. Birch faces up to 29 years to life in prison.