COLUMBUS, Ohio - The Supreme Court of Ohio heard arguments on Wednesday morning on whether or not the conviction of a Youngstown murder suspect Lavontae Knight should remain overturned.

Knight was accused in the murder of Trevice Harris and the attempted murder of Quanisha Bosworth in December of 2018 and was convicted in 2022. However, the Ohio Seventh District Court of Appeals reversed this conviction in 2024.

This initiated a legal battle on why the conviction was thrown out, with the lower court citing the "cumulative error" doctrine, which suggests that while individual mistakes might not be enough to overturn a verdict on their own, multiple mistakes added together can deprive a defendant of their right to a fair trial.

Specifically the Appeals Court found two errors: That the pr

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