Legal Opinion
Walden v. State
Ohio Supreme Court
Decided November 29, 1989No. Nos. 88-1434 and 88-1440, 88-1435 and 88-1439PublishedCited by 93 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtH. Brown, J.
These cases present our first opportunity to construe Ohio’s wrongful imprisonment statutes, R.C. 2305.02 and 2743.48. These statutes were added to the Revised Code in 1986 by Sub. H.B. No. 609 “to authorize civil actions against the state, for specified monetary amounts, in the Court of Claims by certain wrongfully imprisoned individuals” (141 Ohio Laws, Part III, 5351), replacing the former practice of compensating wrongfully imprisoned persons by ad hoc moral claims legislation. See, generally, Comment, Wrongful Incarceration In Ohio: Should There Be More Than A Moral Obligation to…
2Cases cited9 opinions
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3Cited by93 opinions
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