Judge Barbara J. Ansted of the Sandusky County Common Pleas Court, along with the Sandusky County Bar Association, are hosting Ohio’s justices for the official proceedings Sept. 16 outside of Columbus.

Judge Barbara J. Ansted of the Sandusky County Common Pleas Court, along with the Sandusky County Bar Association, are hosting Ohio’s justices for the official proceedings Sept. 16 outside of Columbus.

Hundreds of high school students will weigh arguments in three cases being considered by the Ohio Supreme Court on Wednesday in Sandusky County.

Students from 12 high schools, including host Fremont Ross, have been studying Ohio’s judicial system and reviewing in-depth summaries of the appeals with teachers and local attorneys ahead of this week’s off-site court day. On Wednesday, the students will meet with the justices for a question-and-answer forum and later discuss the legal issues with the case attorneys.

Some highlights from the three cases:

• In a plea deal, the state agreed to drop some charges in exchange for an 18-year-old’s guilty plea to attempted robbery and complicity for stealing items and more than $200. The Cuyahoga County man completed his community control sentence and, 13 years later, asked the court to seal his conviction. In State v. V.M.D., the county prosecutor maintains that attempted robbery is an offense of violence, which state law doesn’t allow to be sealed.
• A Cincinnati nurse challenges her suspension in Clayton v. Ohio Board of Nursing after a patient’s death in the hospital. A state nursing board hearing officer denied the nurse’s request for medical records of all patients in the hectic intensive care unit during the time the patient was there. The nurse points out that she was covering three jobs that night and argues the records would have shown the systemwide problems that evening. She also contends the hearing officer was required by state law to order the release of the documents.
• In Leak v. State, Mansfield police located a man wanted on a domestic violence charge. After arresting him, police searched the vehicle he had been sitting in and discovered a gun and drugs. The man asserts police had no right to search the car because it posed no problem for traffic or threat to public safety. He claims the evidence should have been suppressed at his trial.

Arguments during the off-site court session will begin at 9 a.m and be streamed live online at sc.ohio.gov and broadcast live on The Ohio Channel.