Legal Opinion
State v. Bethel
Ohio Supreme Court
Decided October 4, 2006No. 2003-1766PublishedCited by 196 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtPfeifer, J.
{¶ 1} On June 25, 1996, James Reynolds and his girlfriend, Shannon Hawks, were shot to death in an isolated field in Columbus. Appellant, Robert W. Bethel, was convicted of the aggravated murders of Reynolds and Hawks and was sentenced to death.
{¶ 2} Bethel was a member of the Crips street gang, as was Bethel’s friend Jeremy Chavis. Tyrone Green and Donald Langbein were also members of the Crips gang. Jeremy’s brother, Cheveldes Chavis, although a member of a different gang, “hung with” Jeremy, Langbein, Green, and Bethel. In the latter part of 1996, Bethel, Langbein, and the Chavis brothers…
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