No. 24A174

Omnisun Azali v. Ohio

Lower Court: Ohio
Docketed: 2024-08-14
Status: Presumed Complete
Type: A
Tags: burden-of-proof criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment self-defense sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence
Latest Conference: N/A
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments require the State to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that a defendant was not acting in lawful self-defense when charged with a violent crime, given recent changes to Ohio's self-defense statutory law

Docket Entries

2024-08-14
Application (24A174) granted by Justice Kavanaugh extending the time to file until October 25, 2024.
2024-08-12
Application (24A174) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from August 26, 2024 to October 25, 2024, submitted to Justice Kavanaugh.

Attorneys

Omnisun Azali
Louis Everett GrubeFlowers & Grube, Petitioner
Louis Everett GrubeFlowers & Grube, Petitioner