Tenth District Court of Appeals Judge William A. Klatt

Tenth District Court of Appeals Judge William A. Klatt

A Columbus appeals court judge served in a temporary capacity today on the Ohio Supreme Court.

Tenth District Court of Appeals Judge William A. Klatt heard oral arguments in place of Justice William M. O’Neill in State v. Noling.

Noling, who was convicted for the 1990 murders of an Atwater couple, has asked the Ohio Supreme Court to grant a number of requests related to DNA testing of evidence from the crime scene in an effort to overturn his convictions and death sentence.

According to the Ohio Constitution, in the event of a recusal by a justice, the Chief Justice can select any of the 69 sitting Ohio appellate court judges to sit temporarily on the Supreme Court.

Judge Klatt last served as a visiting judge on the Supreme Court in April 2016.