Insurance Fraud is a Violent Crime

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Willie Hall, appealed judgments of the Lucas County Court of Common Pleas which, following a jury trial convicting him of aggravated murder, aggravated burglary, and burglary sentenced him to life imprisonment. In State of Ohio v. Willie Lewis Hall, 2021-Ohio-2968, Nos. L-20-1089, L-20-1090, Court of Appeals of Ohio, Sixth District, Lucas (August 27, 2021) the Ohio Court of Appeal was asked to reverse Hall’s conviction.

ZALMA OPINION

The murder victim accused the burglar who later entered the victim’s house a second time after the victim tried to profit from the burglary, was murdered by the burglar on his second effort. Insurance fraud had nothing to do with the crime of murder but did give the murderer an excuse to claim the crime had nothing to do with the burglary. It was not even a good try. Insurance fraud is a dangerous crime and resulted in the death of the fraudster who made the mistake of accusing the person who perpetrated the crime and who later killed him and will now spend the rest of his life in prison.