Prosecutors Want Lie-Detector Results Out of Trial

Originally published by: Alan Johnson and the Columbus Dispatch April 10, 2007 Before he was released from prison, Gary Lamar James had to pass a lie-detector test to prove once and for all that he didn’t commit a 1976 bank robbery and murder. Franklin County...

Extra Cash to Aid Food Banks

Originally published by: Mark Niquette and the Columbus Dispatch April 5, 2007 Gov. Ted Strickland donated the remaining money from his inaugural committee to charity yesterday, writing a $300,000 check to the Ohio Association of Second Harvest Foodbanks. “I...

Wrongfully Jailed Man Offered Lower Settlement

Originally published by: Alan Johnson and the Columbus Dispatch April 2, 2007 They each spent 26 years wrongfully imprisoned for the same crime, but prosecutors want to give Gary James less than half the $2.5 million settlement awarded to Timothy Howard. The two East...