Legal Opinion
State v. Yarbrough
Ohio Supreme Court
Decided May 15, 2002No. 1999-0958PublishedCited by 399 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtAlice Robie Resnick, J.
{¶ 1} Appellant, Kevin Yarbrough, was convicted of the aggravated murder for hire of Wilma Arnett, an informant for the Shelby County Sheriffs Department and state’s witness in the prosecution of Calvin Davis and his drug-dealing ring. The trial court sentenced appellant to death. We affirm.
{¶ 2} At the time of Wilma Arnett’s murder, Calvin Davis was the central figure of a Shelby County narcotics ring. He had formerly headed a door-to-door “gypsy” painting crew in Georgia; appellant had worked on his painting crew during 1991 or 1992.
{¶ 3} Wilma Arnett was the sister of Calvin Davis’s wife,…
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