Ohio Supreme Court, 1990

The court held that the trial court substantially complied with the plea colloquy rule even though it did not expressly tell Nero that rape was not probationable. The record showed that Nero understood he would be incarcerated and that the omission did not prejudice him because he did not show that he otherwise would…

The Ohio Supreme Court reversed the court of appeals in both proceedings and reinstated Schiebel’s convictions on three securities-law counts. It concluded that the defendants had not shown grounds for a late new-trial motion based on alleged juror misconduct, that the trial court properly corrected the record…

The Ohio Supreme Court affirmed Lott’s aggravated-murder convictions and death sentence after rejecting his claims concerning joinder, evidence, prosecutorial conduct, sufficiency, counsel, and the sentencing process.

The Supreme Court of Ohio reversed the court of appeals' affirmation of a divorce-court alimony order requiring the payor husband to pay 33-1/3 percent of his gross earned income less FICA for the payee's life, subject only to her remarriage or six months' continuous cohabitation.

The court held that a trial court reviewing a city council’s blight determination for purposes of eminent domain must apply an abuse-of-discretion standard, and that the city’s own survey could permit reasonable minds to find the council’s determination unreasonable.