Legal Opinion
State v. Lane
Ohio Supreme Court
Decided December 12, 1979No. Nos. 79-25, 79-26 and 79-27PublishedCited by 66 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtLocher, J.
The issues to be resolved in this case are three-fold. Succinctly stated, they are: Whether an inmate of a maximum security penitentiary, who is tried in an improvised courtroom within that same correctional institution for an offense committed while serving a sentence within the confines of that same penitentiary, is denied (1) the constitutional right to a fair trial; (2) the constitutional right to a public trial; and (3) the constitutional right to equal protection of the laws.
It is initially noted that, although prisoners in state penal institutions necessarily lose some rights as a…
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