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    Froman enters guilty plea, sentenced to life

    By John Wright
    Murray Ledger and Times

    MAYFIELD — An Illinois man already sentenced to death in Ohio for the killing of a Mayfield woman in the fall of 2014 entered a guilty plea Monday for killing her son in Mayfield.

    Graves Circuit Judge Tim Stark sentenced Terry Froman of Brookport, Illinois to life in prison in the death of Eli Mohney, who was 17 and was apparently attempting to protect his mother, Kim Thomas, when Froman shot him on the morning of Sept. 12, 2014, inside a house. Law enforcement records say Froman then took Thomas out of the office and eventually drove her to southern Ohio, where he shot her to death as law officers closed in on his vehicle. Reports from Ohio say Froman shot himself before being taken into custody.

    Monday afternoon, Graves Commonwealth Attorney David Hargrove said he is glad that this case has now reached its conclusion.

    “The main reason for that is because the family has said that they didn’t want to go through another trial,” Hargrove said. “We were set for trial in May 2019, but the family has said that they felt all of the evidence that needed to come out had already come out in the first trial (last year, which resulted in an Ohio jury recommending the death penalty). They didn’t want to rehash all of that.

    “Our case was different, though; in the Ohio case, they had used some of our evidence.”

    The Graves case carried charges of murder for the death of Mohney and kidnapping and forced imprisonment of Thomas. After Froman had driven the pair to Paducah after killing Mohney, Thomas temporarily escaped the vehicle and was attempting to obtain help when Froman recaptured her and left the scene, police said. Froman also was charged with tampering with physical evidence.

    It was at that point that Paducah police were alerted to the situation. Later, a man who Paducah police have said is someone they had used as an informant in drug cases, came to them, explaining that he had heard about the situation in Mayfield. He had said he was a friend of Froman.

    Testimony in Froman’s case in Graves showed that the informant attempted to assist Paducah officers in tracking Froman’s movements and were recording conversations the informant as having with Froman that day. Froman’s defense had objected to this, filing motions to keep the recording from being used as evidence in the trial. All of that activity ended the same way as the Ohio case.

    “During the sentencing, Terry Thomas (Kim’s father and Mohney’s grandfather) addressed (Froman) and, as he was in the first trial, he was forgiving. He also told him that he needed to get on his knees and come to God about what he had done,” Hargrove said.

    Froman pleaded guilty to all three charges filed against him in Graves County.

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    Foreman's case will be heard before the Ohio Supreme Court on Wednesday June 12, 2019. You may view live stream here

    Kentucky Man Argues against Death Sentence for Murder of Ex-Girlfriend

    State of Ohio v. Terry L. Froman, Case no. 2017-0938
    Warren County Common Pleas Court

    Terry L. Froman was convicted in June 2017 for the murder of a Mayfield, Kentucky, woman who had ended their relationship. In September 2014, after receiving an alert to watch for Froman’s vehicle, law enforcement stopped him on Interstate 75 near Monroe, between Cincinnati and Dayton. The officers heard gunshots and found Kimberly Thomas dead in the vehicle and Froman injured from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Thomas’ teenage son was found dead earlier in the day in Thomas’ Mayfield home, which she once shared with Froman.

    Froman is challenging his death sentence and aspects of his trial in his automatic appeal to the Ohio Supreme Court.

    Mayfield Woman Breaks Up with Live-In Boyfriend
    On August 20, 2014, Thomas ended her four-year relationship with Froman. They lived together in her house, and she told him to move out. The next day, he showed up at the nursing home where Thomas worked, and he commented to one of her co-workers that he was going to make Thomas lose everything, as she had done to him. Her co-workers began escorting Thomas to and from work. Thomas finished moving out of the house on Labor Day weekend.

    On Sept. 12, the Paducah Police Department in Kentucky received a call about an incident at a gas station involving a woman who exited a white SUV and asked for help, but a man dragged her by her hair back to the vehicle. The police distributed an alert for a white GMC Yukon with an Illinois license plate of “TRICKE 1.” The vehicle was registered to Froman. Concerned co-workers, who became suspicious when the police called asking for Thomas, went to her home and discovered her son Michael “Eli” Mohney dead.

    When Ohio State Highway Patrol troopers approached Froman’s car on I-75, they found Thomas dead with four gunshot wounds, a fractured jaw, and several blunt-force injuries and lacerations.

    Froman Indicted for Murder, Kidnapping, and Other Crimes
    The charges made against Froman in the October 2014 indictment in Warren County included aggravated murder and kidnapping. The aggravated murder counts included specifications alleging that the offenses were part of a course of conduct involving Froman’s purposeful killing of two or more persons.

    Following the June 2017 trial, a jury found Froman guilty on all counts and recommended the death penalty, which the trial court imposed. The Ohio Supreme Court will consider his appeal.

    (As part of a plea agreement in Kentucky, Froman pled guilty last December to Mohney’s murder and other crimes, and he was sentenced to life in prison without parole.)

    Froman Disputes Sentence Enhancement Based on Teen’s Murder in Kentucky
    If the state proved beyond a reasonable doubt the specifications alleging that the offenses were part of a course of conduct involving Froman’s purposeful killing of two persons, Froman could receive the death penalty. Froman argues, however, that Ohio courts had no jurisdiction over these specifications because Eli’s murder occurred in Kentucky.

    State law provides that a person can be prosecuted and punished in Ohio if “[t]he person commits an offense under the laws of this state, any element of which takes place in this state.” Eli’s murder didn’t occur in Ohio, nor did any element of that murder, Froman maintains.

    His brief to the Supreme Court notes that he admitted committing Thomas’ murder in the trial’s opening statement and in his unsworn statement. However, he asserts that his case became a “trial within a trial” because most of the evidence presented was from Kentucky, including testimony from Thomas’ co-workers, her neighbor who heard gunshots on Sept. 12, officers who responded to the residence and to the 911 call from the gas station, as well as gruesome photos related to Eli’s murder.

    This evidence made up a substantial portion of the trial, and its admission affected the trial’s fairness and any confidence in the trial’s outcome, he states. Because the trial court should’ve dismissed these specifications due to a lack of jurisdiction, the verdict must be reversed, according to Froman.

    The “other acts” evidence about Eli’s murder also was impermissible bad character evidence, Froman argues. Its value was outweighed by the unfair prejudice to him of the jury hearing an emotional presentation of evidence about the Kentucky murder in order to elevate his sentence to the death in Ohio, he states. He believes his death penalty should be overturned.

    State Could Use Kentucky Murder to Prove Specifications, Prosecutor Maintains
    The Warren County Prosecutor’s Office points to several other Ohio convictions with course-of-conduct specifications related to murders in other states. The trial court had jurisdiction over the case of Thomas’ murder because her murder occurred in Ohio, the prosecutor notes.

    Although Froman contests the trial court’s jurisdiction to consider the course-of-conduct specifications, the prosecutor contends that the sentence enhancements were proven by offering evidence that Froman went to Thomas’ house that morning, got her out of bed, shot Eli when he responded to his mother’s cries for help, put Thomas in his SUV, and drove north, eventually into Ohio. The prosecutor argues that Froman wasn’t tried in Ohio for Eli’s murder, and no separate criminal offense was charged in Ohio for the teen’s murder. Instead, these specifications were only a sentence enhancement, and weren’t subject to the state law governing when the state can prosecute a criminal offense in Ohio, the office states.

    Even if the trial court had no jurisdiction on the course-of-conduct specifications, the court still had jurisdiction to hear the case on the aggravated murder charges, which also included kidnapping specifications that allowed for the death sentence, the prosecutor maintains.

    The office adds that the jury was capable of not confusing the evidence related to Thomas’ murder from the evidence connected to Eli’s murder. Even without the course-of-conduct specifications, the prosecutor contends that proof of Forman’s guilt in Thomas’ murder was overwhelming.

    The office notes that to prove the course-of-conduct specifications, it had to establish a factual link between Thomas’ murder and Eli’s murder. Based on a 1989 Ohio Supreme Court ruling, the prosecutor maintains that it’s irrelevant that the other acts – Eli’s murder – occurred outside Ohio. The events of that morning beginning in Kentucky were necessary to prove the specifications in the Ohio case, the prosecutor argues.

    Froman Raises Other Claims
    Also among Froman’s 14 legal arguments to the Supreme Court, he asserts that the prosecutor denied him a fair trial by badgering an expert witness, referring to him as “Tricke,” and making other improper statements. The prosecutor counters that Froman’s friends called him by the nickname and that the other questions and statements weren’t inappropriate.

    Froman’s brief raises additional issues about:

    juror bias
    shackling of Froman during the trial
    the lack of an expert witness report about video and audiotapes presented to the jury
    enhancements made those materials
    mitigating circumstances in Froman’s life that produced reasonable doubt.
    Amicus Brief about Racial Bias Submitted
    The Ohio Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers filed an amicus curiae brief supporting Froman’s assertion that a juror displayed racial bias in her questionnaire. The association notes that Froman is African American and Thomas was white. The juror indicated on her questionnaire that, statistically, more black people commit crimes. With such clear racial bias, the juror shouldn’t have been allowed on the jury and she tainted the verdict, the association contends, asking the Court to reverse Froman’s death sentence on this basis.

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    Docket entries, memoranda, briefs (including amicus briefs), and other information about this case may be accessed through the case docket.

    Contacts
    Representing Terry L. Froman: Timothy McKenna, 513.381.7111

    Representing the State of Ohio from the Warren County Prosecutor’s Office: Kirsten Brandt, 513.695.1782
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    State of Ohio v Terry Lee Froman

    In today's opinions, the Ohio Supreme Court affirmed the death penalty, on direct appeal, for Terry Lee Froman who kidnapped and killed his ex-girlfriend on Interstate 75 in Ohio after murdering her 17-year-old son in her Mayfield, Kentucky, home.

    Furthermore, it appearing to the court that the date fixed for the execution of judgment and sentence of the Court of Common Pleas has passed, it is ordered by thebcourt that the sentence be carried into execution by the Warden of the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility or, in his absence, by the Deputy Warden on Wednesday, the 13th day of November, 2024, in accordance with the statutes so provided.
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    Distributed for conference June 24, 2021.

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    Petition for certiorari denied.

    Lower Ct: Supreme Court of Ohio
    Case Numbers: (2017-0938)
    Decision Date: September 24, 2020
    Rehearing Denied: November 24, 2020

    https://www.supremecourt.gov/search....c/20-7865.html
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    Post-conviction relief denied by the Ohio Court of Appeals (12th District).

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    On January 27, 2023, Froman filed a habeas petition in Federal District Court.

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    Distributed for conference 5/25/23.

    https://www.supremecourt.gov/search....c/22-7136.html
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    In today's orders, the United States Supreme Court DENIED Froman's petition for certiorari.

    Lower Ct: Court of Appeals of Ohio, Warren County
    Case Numbers: (CA2020-12-080)
    Decision Date: August 8, 2022
    Discretionary Court Decision Date: December 27, 2022

    https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/...23zor_d18f.pdf

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