A man prohibited from using guns but did so anyway can be found guilty of involuntary manslaughter, regardless of why they are not allowed to use weapons, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday.
A Cleveland Police car from a 2020 crime scene. On Tuesday, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled in the Cleveland shooting that resulted in the death of Gary Dickens, 37.COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The Ohio Supreme Court upheld the conviction of a Cleveland man found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the 2018 shooting death of a man outside a party in the Clark-Fulton neighborhood.A jury found Jeremy Crawford not guilty of felony murder but convicted him of involuntary manslaughter in Dickens’ death.
Crawford challenged the jury’s verdict not by arguing that there wasn’t enough evidence to find that his gun use resulted in Dicken’s eventual death but rather that his conviction on the involuntary manslaughter charge was inappropriate because of a prior drug offense, which stripped him of his right to legally possess a gun, was unrelated to the death.
“In other words, Crawford asks us to hold that for a weapons-while-under-disability crime to serve as a predicate offense for an involuntary-manslaughter conviction the reason for the disability must be causally related to the victim’s death,” Justice Pat DeWine wrote in the majority opinion. “We find no basis for reading the involuntary manslaughter statute in the manner Crawford suggests.”
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