Gamso - For the Defense

Commentary by an Ohio criminal defense lawyer

Showing posts with label Mitigation evidence. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mitigation evidence. Show all posts
Thursday, July 23, 2026

The Deserving

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It's been decades since I underlined or wrote in the margins of books, really dating back to some point when I was in college and began ...
Wednesday, February 25, 2015

For a Chance To Chat

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It was February 1997 when Doug Gissendaner was found stabbed repeatedly, murdered, in a remote wooded area of Georgia, about a mile from whe...
Tuesday, September 10, 2013

The Sixth Circuit, By Vote of 2-1, Demonstrates That It Doesn't Believe Ohio Law Applies in Ohio

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it is a peculiar provision of Ohio's death penalty law that what's referred to as the "nature and circumstances of the offense...
Friday, November 4, 2011

And a Little Child Shall Lead Them - Unless the Judge Won't Let Her

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A Connecticut judge will hold a hearing later this month to determine whether a 9-year-old girl can testify about her father -- who has ca...
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Jeff Gamso
Criminal defense lawyer, former public defender, civil libertarian (former Legal Director of American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio), anti-death penalty activist, public speaker. Now retired from the active practice of law.My first career was English Professor. I studied medieval and renaissance English Literature, taught literature, film, and composition. I've been a film critic. I review books. NONE OF WHAT APPEARS IN THIS BLOG SHOULD BE TAKEN AS LEGAL ADVICE.ALSO, PLEASE NOTE THAT THE STUFF I WRITE IS MINE ALONE. I STAND MORE OR LESS BEHIND IT, BUT I DO NOT SPEAK FOR ANY OTHER LAWYER OR ANY GROUP OF LAWYERS - OR ANYONE ELSE, FOR THAT MATTER.
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