Prosecution

A criminal defendant has to have been sentenced before he or she is considered “convicted” of a criminal offense in the State of Ohio.  Below are the felony convictions that took place in the Wayne County Common Pleas Court for 8/5/2019 to 8/12/2019:

By STEVEN F. HUSZAI / Staff Writer

Posted Aug 24, 2017 at 12:00 PM

WOOSTER — In all his years as a prosecutor, Mike Rickett told the court, he has never seen a defendant more “callous” and “manipulative” than Paul Claren.

“It is clear that this defendant has a history of retaliating ... the defendant has such hate in his heart,” Rickett said, during Claren’s sentencing Thursday morning.

Claren was given life in prison without the chance for parole by Judge Mark K. Wiest.

The Wayne County Municipal Court has jurisdiction over misdemeanor level offenses. The following are the criminal case convictions

(not including traffic offenses) for 12/16/2013 to 12/23/2013: