Decisions in three cases from local courts were overturned by the Ohio Sixth District Court of Appeals
last week.
The decisions were issued Friday.
The case of Richard Edwards, 67, currently of the Grafton Correctional Institution, is to be sent back to
the Wood County Court of Common Pleas for resentencing.
Edwards had been sentenced to a total of nine years in prison after he entered an Alford plea to two
counts of gross sexual imposition involving a 2011 incident with a 9-year-old girl, and in this instance
appealed the five-year sentence on one of the counts. The case had been resentenced once before, and
Edwards objected to one of the counts having a lengthened sentence, and the other being shortened.
The court agreed and remanded the case for resentencing.
The case of Wesley Jude, 20, currently of North Central Correctional Institution, Marion, was also
remanded for resentencing after he received eight years in prison subsequent to pleading guilty to two
counts of grand theft of a motor vehicle and three counts of complicity to commit burglary.
Jude appealed because the three 30-month sentences for complicity were ordered to be served
consecutively. The appeals court agreed that the sentence was imposed without making certain sentencing
entry findings provided for in the Ohio Revised Code.
Finally, the appeals court vacated the conviction of Shavell Johnson, 37, Toledo, on 18 counts of
violating a protection order handed down by a jury in Perrysburg Municipal Court, concerning incidents
in 2011 and 2012. He had received multiple 180-day jail sentences.
The court agreed the state failed to present evidence that Johnson was served with copies "of either
full hearing protection order" in the case until after the incidents occurred.