On the Job 

The section strives to uphold lawfully imposed death sentences, assists county prosecutors at the trial level in death penalty cases when requested, and defends the state in federal civil rights litigation brought by inmates.

In an effort to prevent high-speed pursuits, the Lucas County Sheriff’s Office purchased a high-tech solution: GPS tags and launchers which reduce pursuit risks to officers and bystanders.

United States v. Crumpton, 2016 U.S. App. LEXIS 9993 (6th Cir. June 2, 2016)
In this case, the 6^th Circuit Court of Appeals addressed whether an officer is required to tell a suspect, as part of the Miranda rights, that he or she has a right to stop answering questions at any time.

Organizers of the Ohio Peace Officers’ Memorial Ceremony are seeking the names of those who died in the line of duty before 2015 but have yet to be recognized.

Before creating a model vehicle pursuit policy that can be used by law enforcement throughout the state, members of the Attorney General's Advisory Group on Law Enforcement Vehicular Pursuits spent some time recently chasing suspects — in a simulator.

Bowling Green State University (BGSU) and the Ohio Attorney General’s Office have been awarded a grant of almost $440,000 to identify ways to streamline the analytical process of testing Sexual Assault Kits (SAKs).

The laboratory team at the Ohio Attorney General’s Bureau of Criminal Investigation (BCI) in Richfield acted quickly to help law enforcement identify a suspect in a recent abduction and rape in Canton.

Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine announced in July that his office has awarded 29 Ohio rape crisis centers with a total of more than $1.4 million in grant funding.

Each month, new progress is being made by my office’s Sexual Assault Kit (SAK) Testing Initiative. As of Aug. 1, 294 law enforcement agencies had submitted 13,908 kits to be tested as part of the initiative. Forensic scientists with the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation (BCI) completed testing on a total of 11,472 kits, resulting in 4,129 hits in the Combined DNA Index System (CODIS).

On a Thursday afternoon, seven men sat quietly in the jury box of a Butler County courtroom listening to testimony about the suffering caused by gun violence. They weren’t part of a jury, though, in fact, they were called to the court by their parole officers to listen to a warning about the perils of criminal life.