Cuyahoga County Prosecutor

Sonny Meraban and two others were arrested Wednesday in Miami Beach and near Chicago and face 59 counts in Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas.

Under Michael O'Malley, the prosecutor's office began collecting information on police officer misconduct and automatically turning that information over to defense.

Ru-El Sailor was convicted in 2003 and sentenced to life in prison before his conviction was vacated in 2018.

Phillips was sentenced to 92 years in prison and Sutton to 46 years following their conviction in the original trial in 2007, based largely on the testimony of two Cleveland police officers.

The testimony of two police officers who testified in the original trial in 2007, Daniel Lentz and Michael Keane, has been called into question by two other Cleveland officers.

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The controversial bill in the Ohio House that would ban businesses and employers from requiring vaccines is now on hold because it lacks the votes to proceed; Gov. Mike DeWine and Lt. Gov. Jon Husted say they won’t be attending former President Donald Trump’s rally in Lorain on Saturday; two Republican lawmakers got into a tense confrontation at an upscale Columbus restaurant two weeks ago over the now-historic vote to expel Larry Householder from the Ohio House; and more stories.

Known as the "Cleveland Strangler," Sowell is said to have died of an undisclosed terminal illness after 10 years on death row.

The Cuyahoga County prosecutor’s office plans to use open source genealogical databases to help identify “stranger rapists” — people who’ve been indicted as John Does for sexual assault but haven’t been identified. The prosecutor’s office indicts the DNA profile collected from a rape kit to ensure the statute of limitations doesn’t expire.

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