Bob Ney:News and Notes

HELLO FROM BOB NEY, 

AN INTRIGUING GUEST WILL BE ON MY SHOW  STARTING AT 1 P.M.. ON THURSDAY, APRIL 30TH. 
 
HE IS A PROMINENT OHIO CRIMINAL DEFENSE ATTORNEY, JAMES D. OWEN 
 
PLEASE FEEL FREE TO TUNE IN HERE ON THE INTERNET OR ON-AIR AT 1370/WVLY

YOU CAN CALL IN ---YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BE SHY--YOU DO NOT HAVE TO GIVE YOUR NAME, JUST CALL IN AT----866-926-8255.

OR LOCALLY   304-232-8255

MR. OWEN HAS BEEN INVOLVED IN LANDMARK CRIMINAL CASES RESULTING IN THE RELEASE OF INNOCENT MEN WRONGLY CONVICTED. 

HERE IS SOME MORE INFORMATION ABOUT OUR GUEST

      Recently, Mr. Owen helped overturn the convictions of a man and woman from Mansfield, Ohio who were framed by the DEA, which hired agents that used stand-in actors to impersonate the man and woman during staged drug deals. 

      He  also helped free two Columbus men, Timothy Howard and Gary James, who were both convicted and sentenced to death in 1977 for a robbery and murder at an East-side Columbus bank.  Mr. Owen became involved in the case in 1997, more than 20 years after their convictions.  On April 17, 2003, Mr. Howard was granted a new trial based on compelling new evidence of innocence.  On July 17, 2003, Mr. James was also granted a new trial.  Shortly thereafter, the State of Ohio dismissed all charges against both men and expunged their convictions.  With his  representation, both men were later found to have been wrongfully imprisoned and received the two highest wrongful imprisonment awards in Ohio history. 

      Mr. Owen also represented two Akron-area men, Randy Resh and Robert Gondor, in state post-conviction litigation.  These two clients were indicted in 1990 for death penalty murder, and were subsequently convicted and sentenced to lengthy terms of imprisonment.  After extensive litigation initiated by Mr. Owen, culminating in an eight-day evidentiary hearing, both men were granted new trials on June 14, 2002, based on compelling new evidence of innocence.  After the State of Ohio appealed, Mr. Owen argued the case before the Ohio Supreme Court where the Court affirmed the trial court’s decision granting post-conviction relief in a unanimous decision rendered on December 26, 2006.  Both men have since been exonerated of all charges. 

      In 1986, Mr. Owen obtained the first acquittal by a jury in a capital murder case under Ohio’s 1981 death penalty law.  Since then, he has received more jury acquittals in death penalty murder trials than any other lawyer licensed in Ohio. 

      Just last month, Mr. Owen obtained another in a long string of acquittals, this one coming from a Murder case he tried to a jury in Springfield, Ohio. 

      Mr. Owen has represented Centurion Ministries, Inc., a Princeton-based nonprofit corporation founded and operated by Jim McCloskey that works for the release of the wrongfully convicted.  Centurion Ministries has freed 46 innocent men and women throughout the country who were either on death row or serving life sentences.  Mr. McCloskey was profiled in U.S. News & World Report in 2001 as one of 20 living American heroes of our time. 

      Mr. Owen has also represented judges and other elected officials in a variety of legal matters; and most recently has served as legal advisor to the Ohio Secretary of State in nineteen separate lawsuits filed against the office prior to the Secretary’s election in 2006. 

      Mr. Owen has been fighting for the Constitutional rights of citizens across the county for nearly 30 years, and has provided a powerful voice for all of our rights through his work defending the accused.

MSNBC's Rachel Maddow had a few words to say about the new afternoon host on WVLY.

Meanwhile, Politico.com says a movie is in the works about Jack Abramoff. Callers to the Bob Ney Show today suggested some names for actors to play the Bob Ney part: Bob Newhart, Alec Baldwin, Brad Pitt (!) and Gary Sinese.

Wall Street Journal writer, economist. and Fox News analyst Stephen Moore was Bob's Monday guest. Bob and Moore talked about the current state of the economy, stimulus plan, and the flat tax. Lots of phone calls from the Valley and from afar---including one inside the Beltway.

Thursday on The Bob Ney Radio Show, Bob talked about the Bush administration unauthorized wiretaps, Tea Party events, efforts by Spain to bring Bush officials to trial, health care reform, the Bellaire Bridge, and a review of some key issues in Ohio politics.

Hi there! Howard Monre here. Bob is busy learning the ropes of the talk show game, but he will eventually be posting his own thoughts here.

For now, let me thank you for the OVERWHELMING response we've had to the new Bob Ney Radio Show. If you want to see some pix of the debut day, click on the photo albumn to the right.

Our on-line stream was bombarded by listeners around the country. We had more people listening on-line for the 2-hour debut show than we normally do in a month.

WTRF and WTOV locally covered the event. So did the Ohio News Network (ONN). ONN has a nice video on their website onntv.com. Dozens of national publications and blogs picked up the story as well. (Some of the nationals didn't do their homework--calling me a "conservative" station owner.)

Keep listening. Send Bob your e-mail (link is to the right). Or post on this blog or my own blog.

The fun has just begun!