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Success Stories

Successful Cases Handled by Russel Bensing

Successful Supreme Court of Ohio Appeals

January 1, 2019

State v. Castagnola

I was successful in getting the Supreme Court to reverse the trial and appeals court and hold that police went beyond the warrant in searching a computer; court reverses convictions for child pornography, case dismissed.

January 1, 2019
January 1, 2019

State v. Thomas

I was successful in getting the Supreme Court to hold that the defendant should have been sentenced under new law rather than old law; 28-year prison sentenced reduced to 11 years.

January 1, 2019
January 1, 2019

State v. Walker

I was successful in getting the Supreme Court to reject the State’s argument that defendant acted with prior calculation and design; it affirmed reduction of defendant’s conviction from aggravated murder to murder.

January 1, 2019

Appeal Success Stories

January 1, 2019

State v. Weimer

I won reversal of defendant’s aggravated murder conviction and 44-to-life sentence because of error in admission of hearsay evidence.

January 1, 2019
January 1, 2019

State v. Pawlak

I was successful in getting defendant’s conviction and ten-year-to-life sentence vacated because trial lawyer was ineffective in not objecting to prejudicial testimony; defendant wound up pleading a lesser charge with a one-year sentence.

January 1, 2019
January 1, 2019

State v. Caldwell

I was successful in having defendant’s conviction and 25-to-life sentence vacated because trial judge refused to accept a plea to a lesser charge. On remand to trial court, defendant pled to the lesser charge and was sentenced to time served.

January 1, 2019
January 1, 2019

State v. McCully

I won reversal of defendant’s conviction and 25-year sentence for aggravated robbery because the judge did not provide the jury with written instructions on reasonable doubt, burden of proof, and other rights of defendant. The defendant had appointed counsel for the appeal, and she filed her brief a day after I entered an appearance. Her brief didn’t even raise the issue I won on. On remand, further evidence showed that the defendant was a victim of a case of mistaken identity, and was freed.

January 1, 2019

Successful Appeals With Subsequent Successful Trials

January 1, 2019

State v. Oldham

I was successful in getting defendant’s conviction of felonious assault with a gun and six-year sentence reversed for prosecutorial misconduct. On remand, I tried the case and the defendant was convicted of misdemeanor assault and was freed.

January 1, 2019
January 1, 2019

State v. Litten

I was successful in having defendant’s conviction of nine counts of drug possession and trafficking, with firearm specifications, and 16-year-sentence reversed on numerous grounds. I represented the defendant on remand, and successfully pursued a motion to suppress which resulted in eight of the counts being dismissed. The State dismissed the last count on the day of trial, and the defendant walked out of court a free man.

January 1, 2019

Successful Post-Conviction Relief

January 1, 2019

State v. McCoy

I was successful in having defendant’s 10-to-life sentence reversed because of ineffective assistance of trial counsel; he pled to a reduced charge and was sentenced to time served.

January 1, 2019
January 1, 2019

State v. Clark

Defendant released after serving 23 years for murder of his wife when I showed that prosecutor hid evidence from jury that the wife’s wound had been self-inflicted.

January 1, 2019

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