State’s top court to hear arguments on Mahoning County case

January 30, 2015 at 1:29p.m.

COLUMBUS

The Ohio Supreme Court announced today that it will hear oral arguments Wednesday in the case of a Mahoning County defendant, who says the 112-year prison term he received for the rape, robbery and kidnapping offenses he committed at the age of 15 is unconstitutional cruel and unusual punishment.

The sentence was imposed on Brandon Moore by Judge R. Scott Krichbaum of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court for crimes committed Aug. 21, 2001.

Moore robbed and abducted a young woman near her workplace, and he and another teen raped her repeatedly at gunpoint.