Legal Opinion
State v. Foust
Ohio Supreme Court
Decided December 29, 2004No. 2002-1350PublishedCited by 119 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtO’Donnell, J.
{¶ 1} In this appeal, defendant-appellant, Kelly Foust, raises 13 propositions of law. Finding none meritorious, we affirm his convictions. We have independently weighed the aggravating circumstances against the mitigating factors and have compared his sentence to those imposed in similar cases, as R.C. 2929.05(A) requires. As a result, we affirm Foust’s sentence of death.
{¶ 2} During the early morning of March 31, 2001, Foust broke into the home of 54-year-old Jose Coreano in Cleveland. Foust entered Jose’s first-floor bedroom and killed him with a hammer blow to the head. Foust then went…
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