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State v. Williams

Is it still good law? What later courts have actually done to this case.

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Court
Supreme Court of Ohio
Citation
129 Ohio St. 3d 344
Decided
Confirmed treatments
1
Flagged citations read
31 of 31
Citing cases (total)
31
Treatment dates
2012
Limited by some courts
At least one reviewed court has limited this case’s holding to narrower facts or a narrower rule. No reviewed court has overruled it. State v. Williams remains controlling on retroactive application of Ohio's 2007 sex offender registration law, but a later court limited the relief available from a final conviction. All 31 flagged citations have been read.
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State v. Caldwell held that Williams did not make a final failure to verify conviction void and open to collateral attack, although Williams required resentencing under former law. That treatment is listed below.

Every treatment on this page is written from the citing opinion itself, with a verbatim quote, never copied from a commercial citator. A citation flagged by our screen but not shown here was read and found not to weaken this case.

31 later cases cite State v. Williams; 31 of those citations sat close to treatment language and were flagged for reading, and all of them have been read. Citations that did not sit near treatment language were not flagged and were not read one by one, so a court that weakened this case without using any of that language would not appear here.

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Treatments

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  • Williams did not make a final conviction for violating the 2007 registration requirements void and open to collateral attack.

    State v. Caldwell · Court of Appeals of Ohio, Second Appellate District · filed

    The principal issue in the second allegation is whether either Bodyke, as applied in State v. Gingell, 128 Ohio St.3d 444, 2011-Ohio-1481, 947 N.E.2d 192, or State v. Williams, 129 Ohio St.3d 344, 2011-Ohio-3374, 952 N.E.2d 1108, decided during the pendency of this appeal, rendered Caldwell’s failure-to-verify conviction void. We conclude that these decisions rendered his conviction not void but voidable.
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