Big issues in dispute in OU student’s legal appeal

(Athensnews.com © 5/29/2013)

The Ohio Public Defender's office has fired back in a battle over a local judge's ruling that said an Ohio University student did not qualify for a Public Defender attorney because her parents pay her bills.

Mental-health fix not just about money

(The Columbus Dispatch © 5/28/2013)

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Improving America’s mental health isn’t simply a matter of providing more money, national and Ohio experts say, although better funding would help.

Access to mental-health care is woeful

(The Columbus Dispatch © 5/27/2013)

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Tom and Dorothy Lane are convinced their mentally ill son committed “suicide by cop” two years ago because he was worried about his health-care insurance expiring the next day when he turned 26.

Mental-health system overwhelmed, underfunded

(The Columbus Dispatch © 5/26/2013)

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Nearly 15 months have slipped from the calendar since T.J. Lane rained death from a.22-caliber pistol in a small northeastern Ohio school.

Ohio excels in defusing potential tragedies

(The Columbus Dispatch © 5/26/2013)

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Ohio leads the nation in taking some of the danger and unpredictability out of encounters between people with mental illness and the criminal-justice system.

Right to attorney is muddled after 50 years

(TheNews-Messenger.com © 5/25/2013)

Ohioans spent nearly $53.5 million last year on attorneys appointed to defend criminal defendants too poor to pay because of a half-century old U.S. Supreme Court decision that experts say doesn’t guarantee individuals a quality lawyer — or even a sober, awake one.

Memorandum regarding Indigent Criminal Defense Training Opportunities

Death Row inmate wins case for new DNA testing

(The Columbus Dispatch © 5/3/2013)

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Convicted inmates still trying to prove their innocence from Death Row and elsewhere in Ohio’s prison system received an assist from the Ohio Supreme Court yesterday.

Ex-inmates say innocent men remain on Death Row

(The Columbus Dispatch © 4/12/2013)

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Derrick Jamison has moved to Louisiana since his 2005 release from Ohio’s Death Row. But the former Cincinnati resident said he is compelled to return by memories of the men he saw put to death during the 20 years he spent behind bars after being wrongly convicted.