USA - Ohio. The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ordered that Rayshawn Johnson, 30, should be resentenced

A 3-judge panel in the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati in a split ruling has ordered that Rayshawn Johnson, 30, should be resentenced because his lawyers didn't fully investigate his abusive childhood. Johnson was convicted of aggravated murder in the November 1997 death of a woman. The Ohio Supreme Court rejected Johnson's appeals. But a U.S. district court ordered a new sentencing after agreeing that he wasn't effectively represented during sentencing. Now the appeals court has affirmed that decision.