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Ohio, ex rel. Ricardo Dodson v. Shelbie Smith, Warden
IFP petition · Supreme Court of Ohio, No. 2024-1162 · judgment May 29, 2025
Questions presented
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Can a trial court correct-Amend a jury's verdict that announced the wrong name upon reading the verdict, upon assenting to the verdict on polling, and after the jury has been discharged? Or, did the trial court loose jurisdiction to correct-amend the verdict upon discharging of the jury?
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Whether Petitioner conviction, sentence, and imprisonment is unlawful where the jury reached a guilty verdict against the wrong party and not Petitioner, announced the wrong name during the reading of the verdict, assented to the wrong name during jury polling, then discharged without correcting the verdict error finding the wrong party guilty?
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Where the jury verdict form incorrectly listed the wrong name, and that wrong name was announced in open court during the reading of the verdict, and the jury assented to the incorrect name, polled on the incorrect name, and the judge accepted the jury verdict, then discharged the jury without correcting the verdict, did the trial court error when it overruled the verdict, found petitioner guilty, and imposed a sentence?
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Whether the trial court's Correction of a Verdict, after the jury had been discharged, by switching it from Ricardo Jackson to Ricardo Dodson to Correct an Error made by the Jury where they assented to the wrong name on the Verdict Form and assented to the wrong name during jury polling, Violates the Double Jeopardy Clause?
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Whether State law allowing the trial judge to enter a judgment of conviction during jury trial where the jury failed to render a proper guilty verdict prior to being discharged abridge privileges or immunities of citizens of United States within meaning of Fourteenth Amendment?
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Whether it was error for the trial court to enter a finding of guilt when, by error, the jury did not make a finding of guilty against Petitioner before being discharged?
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Where the jury verdict forms was misread during the reading of the jury verdict, announcing the wrong name of the party standing trial, and the jury assented to the misread version of its verdict, then discharged without correcting the misread verdict, does the misread verdict constitute the final verdict?
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Where the jury failed to reach a verdict finding petitioner guilty on any counts of the indictment due to error, and discharged without reaching a verdict or correcting the verdict error, does the trial court have authority to enter a guilty verdict on behalf of the jury?
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Ricardo Dodson
For respondent
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Case
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Proceedings
- Nov 17 2025Petition DENIED.
- Oct 30 2025DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/14/2025.
- Aug 12 2025Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due October 16, 2025)