State ex rel. Mason v. Griffin

{¶ 1} Terrance Moore was indicted in two separate criminal cases in the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas. After Moore waived his right to a jury trial on the charges, respondent, Judge Burt W. Griffin, conducted a bench trial of the criminal cases. The trial concluded on June 17, 2004.

{¶ 2} On June 24, 2004, the Supreme Court of the United States held that a Washington trial court’s sentencing of a criminal defendant to more than three years above the statutory maximum of the standard range for second-degree kidnapping involving the use of a firearm, which was based on the sentencing…