Legal Opinion
State v. Conway
Ohio Supreme Court
Decided March 8, 2006No. 2003-0647PublishedCited by 293 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtLanzinger, J.
{¶ 1} On January 19, 2002, Jason Gervais was shot and killed and Mandel Williams was shot and wounded outside a strip bar in Columbus, Ohio. James T. Conway III was indicted, tried, and convicted by a jury of the aggravated murder of Gervais. He now appeals his convictions and sentence of death.
{¶ 2} Evidence at the trial revealed that on the evening of January 18, 2002, Conway met a group of friends at Dockside Dolls, a strip bar in Columbus, Ohio. Among the'group was Conway’s brother, Jeff Conway. Conway and his friends had visited Dockside Dolls (“Dockside”) regularly during the previous…
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