The Supreme Court sided with Ohio in putting on hold an appeals court ruling from June that threw out a conviction and death sentence imposed on prisoner August Cassano, who complained that a trial court denied him his Sixth Amendment right to represent himself. An execution date had not yet been scheduled. Late on Sept. 20, Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh ordered that the June 17 decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit was stayed, giving Cassano’s jailer time to file a petition for certiorari, or review, of the appeals court decision with the Supreme Court. Kavanaugh did not provide reasons explaining his decision. The Supreme Court case is Shoop v. Cassano, court file 21A34. Tim Shoop is a prison warden. The case goes back 24 years when Cassano was serving a prison sentence at Mansfield Correctional Institution in Ohio for a 1976 murder conviction. On …
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