Three-judge panel reviewing Widmer conviction
Janice Morse reports: Ryan Widmer’s fight for a fourth murder trial is shifting to a bigger battleground: the Ohio 12th District Court of Appeals in Middletown, which handles cases from an eight-county...
View ArticleWidmer hearing focuses on bathtub
Michele Berry, appeal attorney for Ryan Widmer, shows a photo of the space where Widmer's bathtub was ripped out of from his Hamilton Township home in 2008. Berry says police had no right to remove the...
View ArticleProsecutors oppose Widmer appeal
Janice Morse reports: Jurors in the Ryan Widmer murder case were provided with all the information they needed to make a sound decision, prosecutors say, arguing that the lead detective’s alleged...
View ArticleOhio Supreme Court is asked to hear Widmer case
Ryan Widmer looks at his family after he was found guilty Tuesday of murdering his wife Sarah Widmer in 2008. This photo was taken Tuesday, February 15, 2011. / The Enquirer/Cara Owsley Janice Morse...
View ArticleSupreme Court won’t hear Widmer appeal
The Enquirer The Ohio Supreme Court has turned down a request to review Ryan Widmer’s conviction in the 2008 bathtub drowning of his wife, Sarah, 24. Widmer, 32, a Colerain Township native who last...
View ArticleWidmer’s second appeal attempt focuses on DNA
Janice Morse reports: After one failed attempt to appeal to the Ohio Supreme Court, Ryan Widmer’s appellate lawyer is urging the court to consider whether DNA testing could prove “whether a crime...
View ArticleOhio Supreme Court: No new trial for Widmer
Ryan Widmer looks at his family after he was found guilty of murdering his wife Sarah Widmer in 2008. This photo was taken Tuesday, February 15, 2011. / The Enquirer/Cara Owsley The Enquirer The...
View ArticleWidmer ‘curse’ persists after 5 years
Janice Morse reports: The tentacles of the Ryan Widmer murder case aren’t letting go. Just when it seems that the controversial case is about to drift away, something happens to get people talking...
View ArticleU.S. Supreme Court rejects first Widmer appeal
The Enquirer The U.S. Supreme Court announced Monday it has declined to hear an appeal from lawyers representing Ryan Widmer, the Warren County man convicted of drowning his wife in their bathtub in...
View ArticleU.S. Supreme Court turns down another Widmer appeal
Ryan Widmer, left, and his father Gary Widmer enter the Warren County Courthouse in Lebanon in 2011. / Cara Owsley / Enquirer file Jennifer Edwards Baker reports: The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to...
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