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Ohio’s 30-Day Criminal Appeal Deadline: When It Starts and What Happens If You Miss It
By Matt Bangerter, criminal defense attorney and former Lake County assistant prosecutor | Updated November 2026 Note that laws change over…
Matthew Bangerter Cloned His Own DNA: What That Means for the Forensic Evidence in Your Case
Matthew Bangerter has cloned his own DNA. That is a literal description of laboratory work, not a figure of speech. Using…
Using Scientific Literature to Challenge a Drug Test: A Case Study
A positive drug test is often treated as the end of the conversation. In a probation-violation setting in particular, the assumption…
What Matthew Bangerter Learned as a Lake County Prosecutor That He Now Uses Against the Prosecution
Plenty of defense attorneys advertise that they used to be prosecutors. Far fewer explain what that experience actually changes about how…
First-Time OVI Charges in Cleveland: What Defendants Should Expect
Getting pulled over and arrested for OVI in Cleveland can feel like your life just stopped. You're probably wondering whether you're…
Does Locking Up a Teenager Make Anyone Safer? What the Research Actually Says
Most people assume that serious consequences for a young person mean time in a locked facility. Decades of research - including…
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