Legal Opinion
State v. Mason
Ohio Court of Appeals
Decided December 27, 2016No. 9–16–34PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtPreston, J.
{¶ 1} Plaintiff-appellant, the State of Ohio, appeals the entry of the Marion County Court of Common Pleas granting defendant-appellee's, Maurice Mason ("Mason"), motion to dismiss the death-penalty specification from his indictment. In 1994, Mason was sentenced to death for the 1993 murder of nineteen-year-old Robin Dennis ("Dennis."). See State v. Mason, 82 Ohio St.3d 144 , 144-148, 694 N.E.2d 932 (1998). In 2008, Mason was granted federal habeas corpus relief as to his death sentence and, while his resentencing was pending, the United States Supreme Court invalidated Florida's…
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