Appellate court upholds Youngstown man's 1992 murder conviction

YOUNGSTOWN — A three-judge panel of the 7th District Court of Appeals has upheld a man’s conviction for the July 22, 1992, murder of his estranged wife.

In a ruling earlier this week on the long-delayed appeal, the panel said the evidence presented against Robert E. Wilson of Youngstown in his jury trial for the murder of Tonya Wilson was “sufficient and persuasive.”

Wilson’s lawyer, Jana L. DeLoach of Akron, who said Wilson is innocent, argued unsuccessfully that another man fired the fatal shot and that Wilson’s conviction was against the weight of the evidence.

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