Hall v. Turner

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF OHIO EASTERN DIVISION JONATHAN W. HALL, ) Case No. 3:21-cv-1664 ) Petitioner, ) Judge J. Philip Calabrese ) v. ) Magistrate Judge Darrell A. Clay ) TOM WATSON, Warden, ) ) Respondent. ) ) OPINION AND ORDER Petitioner Jonathan Hall pled guilty to a specification enhancing the penalty for his underlying offense that carried a potentially lengthy mandatory consecutive sentence. At the change-of-plea hearing in State court, after he admitted his guilt to that specification, the prosecutor advised the Court that it could not impose a mandatory…