YOUNGSTOWN Brian Donlow Jr., 26, whose next murder trial is scheduled for this August, has asked Judge Anthony D’Apolito of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court to allow him to represent himself.
Donlow, who has been in prison much of the time since his February 2020 conviction in an earlier murder case, appeared in person Tuesday.
Donlow said he wanted to represent himself because his attorney, John Laczko, has not provided him with any pretrial evidence in the case, known as discovery. Donlow said he was also dissatisified with Laczko’s work on his last case.
Laczko went to the Mahoning County jail Monday to speak with Donlow, but Donlow refused to speak to him. Laczko said it’s been difficult to talk to Donlow because of Donlow being in prison.
YOUNGSTOWN A 26-year-old man has been convicted of a federal gun charge.
Yaumbrail Jones, who last gave authorities a West LaClede Avenue, Youngstown address, appeared via video Jan. 14 before U.S. Judge Benita Y. Pearson and pleaded guilty to one count of having a weapon as a felon.
Jones is scheduled to be sentenced 10:30 a.m May 6 at a federal courtroom in Youngstown. He remains in federal custody, records show.
The court action came after Jones and his attorney Nathan Ray agreed to drop an evidence suppression motion in the case. The defense had wanted to suppress any evidence found by Warren police in a search of a Fifth Street, Warren, apartment last summer. The defense also called for the judge to dismiss the case against Jones because the woman to whom the apartment was leased hadn’t given permission for police to search the place.
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YOUNGSTOWN Throughout the 1960s, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. recognized how fluid, evolutionary and transformational the civil rights movement was and, many people contend, had the wisdom to adopt and shift his strategies with it for achieving a more just society.
For example, it was one thing for black people to gain the right to sit at what had been whites-only lunch counters, but another for them to have greater economic power to afford what was being served.
The movement continues to evolve today to include tackling disparities in access to health care and education, as well as unequal treatment by police, many say.
YOUNGSTOWN The cousin of Michael Abinghanem, who was murdered in 2012 at a home on Youngstown’s West Side, is speaking out regarding the resentencing hearing that will be held soon for her cousin’s killer.
The Ohio Supreme Court ruled last month that Judge John Durkin of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court must resentence Kyle Patrick, now 26, who was convicted of aggravated murder and other offenses in Abinghanem’s murder.
Abinghanem’s cousin, Danielle Davanzo of Youngstown, is concerned with the possibility that the judge could order a lesser sentence, even though she understands that Patrick has the right to seek a lesser sentence.
YOUNGSTOWN The cousin of Michael Abinghanem, who was murdered in 2012 at a home on Youngstown’s West Side, is speaking out regarding the resentencing hearing that will be held soon for her cousin’s killer.
The Ohio Supreme Court ruled last month that Judge John Durkin of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court must resentence Kyle Patrick, now 26, who was convicted of aggravated murder and other offenses in Abinghanem’s murder.
Abinghanem’s cousin, Danielle Davanzo of Youngstown, is concerned with the possibility that the judge could order a lesser sentence, even though she understands that Patrick has the right to seek a lesser sentence.