Though two of his relatives have taken plea deals, the oldest of the two sons has not

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

45% : In exchange for her agreement to testify against her own family and for statements she made to authorities that laid out the planning and execution of the long-planned plot to kill the Rhodens, prosecutors dropped the aggravated murder charges she had faced.
43% : When Jake Wagner pleaded guilty in April, prosecutors agreed to remove the possibility of the death penalty for his whole family.
42% : This is at least the second hearing where the stenographer issue was a problem because, in death penalty cases, the court reporter must be specially certified if the court is going to tackle any motions of substance.
35% : With the quick discoveries of the other bodies, the Ohio attorney general's office's Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation swarmed the scenes and took over the investigation into what then-Attorney General Mike DeWine would call the most complex (and maybe now longest-lingering) homicide cases the state of Ohio has ever seen.

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