Cumulative Sentence

• Cumulative Sentence

Separate consecutive terms of imprisonment imposed upon a defendant who has been convicted of two or more disti...

• West's Encyclopedia of American Law
• Com–Dor

• State v. Boynton, (Ohio 2010)

Constitutional Law, effective assistance of counsel, speedy trial; Error, “cumulative”; Evidence, admission of, sufficiency, weight; Gross Sexual Imposition; Sentence, maximum

... his right to a speedy trial; and 6) cumulative error compels the reversal of his conviction. . - ...

• Ohio Supreme Court

• State v. Messenger, (Ohio 2010)

Trial court did not err in denying defendant-appellant's motion to suppress. Defendant-appellant's having a weapon under disability and domestic violence convictions are not against the manifest weight of the evidence and supported by sufficient evidence. Trial court did not abuse its discretion with respect to its evidentiary rulings. Prosecutor's comments were harmless error, if error at all. Defendant-appellant failed to demonstrate cumulative error. Defendant-appellant's sentence was not excessive.

• Ohio Supreme Court

• End Last-Minute Pardons

Governors frequently fire off pardons on their way out the door. Whether apt or outrageous, the details tend to get buried by attention to the new regime. But any rise in public cynicism that results from what appears to be a political pardon does not go away. It's cumulative. This is the case with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's commuting of a manslaughter sentence for the son of former Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez, a Democrat who now works in a consulting firm with Schwarzenegger's former communications director.

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• January 06, 2011

• State v. Gatewood, (Ohio 2012)

Appellant’s right to speedy trial was violated with respect to two counts which were dismissed from the original indictment and then re-indicted after the case had been successfully appealed and remanded to the trial court. Trial court did not abuse its discretion when it sustained the State’s challenge of a juror for cause who stated that he was biased against the local police who had arrested appellant. Trial court abused its discretion when it relied on improper factors when it imposed maximum consecutive sentences on appellant. Comments made by trial court evinced a vindictive sentence imposed in retaliation for appellant’s decision to exercise his constitutional rights. No cumulative error at trial. Appellant’s convictions for illegal conveyance and having weapons while under ...

• Ohio Supreme Court

• Affronti v. United States, 350 U.S. 79 (1955)

... . Under 18 U.S.C. 3651, after a sentence of consecutive terms on multiple counts of an indi... of the sentences composing a single cumulative sentence immediately upon imprisonment for any par...

• U.S. Supreme Court

• State v. Greene, (Ohio 2009)

Felonious assault; speedy trial; sufficiency; manifest weight; continuance; exculpatory evidence; hearsay; business records; harmless error; impeaching statements; cumulative error; alibi; co-defendant's guilty plea; jury instructions; firearm; consecutive sentence; allied offenses; Evid.R. 803(B); Evid.R. 701.

• Ohio Supreme Court

• US v. Christopher Cox, (4th Cir. 2012)

... The district court sentenced Cox to one month imprisonment on the ... § 924(c) convictions, resulting in a cumulative sentence of 1285 months' imprisonment. . On appeal...

• Federal Circuits

• State v. Graham, (Ohio 2009)

Motion to suppress; traffic stop; lay opinion testimony; hearsay; statement against interest; prosecutorial misconduct; manifest weight; sufficiency of evidence; jury instruction; complicity; mandatory sentence; R.C. 2925.51; ineffective assistance of counsel; cumulative error doctrine.

• Ohio Supreme Court

• State v. Clark, (Ohio 2008)

Aggravated murder, aggravated robbery, aggravated burglary, aggravated assault, grand theft of a motor vehicle, purposefully, sufficient evidence, prior calculation and design, intent, circumstantial evidence, theft, deadly weapon, serious physical harm, manifest weight, involuntary manslaughter, lesser included offense, victim impact statement, sentence, de novo, inconsistent sentences, mitigating factors, death penalty, aggravating factors, life imprisonment, mercy, cumulative errors.

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