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Conviction Upheld for 1992 Cuyahoga County Courthouse Murderer

By Cleveland Law Library

The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has just upheld the conviction and death sentence of Abdul Awkal for the murder of his wife and brother-in-law in the basement of the Cuyahoga County Courthouse in 1992. I remember the day well when the Courthouse rang with the sound of gunfire in the Domestic Relations Court. The Court rejected the defense contention that the defendant was suffering from psychosis at the time of the killings and the claim that defendant's attorney failed to present an adequate insanity defense to the jury. Click here for all Sixth Circuit published and unpublished opinions in the case. Click here to read a news release from the Ohio Attorney General's office.

Full post as published by Cleveland Law Library Weblog on July 26, 2010 (boomark / email).