A judge in Lucas County Pleas Court has denied a request to take the death penalty off the table in the Kei’mani Latigue murder case.

David Klucas, Ann Baronas, and Morgan Isenberg, attorneys for capital murder defendant Darnell Jones, had moved to have the death-penalty specifications in his case dismissed, arguing that the death penalty represents cruel and unusual punishment and Ohio’s selection of capital cases is arbitrary.

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In his decision Wednesday, Judge Michael Goulding noted: “The positions Defendant takes, however, have been addressed by the Ohio Supreme Court. All issues raised by the defense have been rejected and the constitutionality of the capital specifications has been upheld.”

Jones, 34, of the 600 block of Willard Street, is charged in

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