High court won’t hear stadium killer appeal of murder conviction

High court won’t hear stadium killer appeal of murder conviction

COLUMBUS

The Ohio Supreme Court has refused to hear Anthony Caulton’s appeal of his murder conviction in the Aug. 19, 2006, shooting death of Larry D. Jones during a pee-wee football game attended by some 500 people at the former South High School stadium in Youngstown.

The top court’s Wednesday announcement that it would not accept the case for review and was dismissing the appeal follows a unanimous December decision by a three-judge panel of the 7th District Court of Appeals, which upheld Caulton’s conviction.

Caulton, 30, of East Auburndale Avenue, is serving 18 years to life in the Trumbull Correctional Institution for killing Jones, 31, of Ravenwood Avenue.

The 7th District Court in Youngstown rejected Caulton’s claim that visiting Judge Thomas P. Curran of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court erred by not instructing the jury that convicted Caulton concerning the lesser offense of voluntary manslaughter.