Law professor Benza explains why federal judges upheld death sentence in double murder caseJuly 1, 2011Media· Judges worry, but affirm death sentence of Tyrone Noling The Plain Dealer: Though federal judges questioned whether Tyrone Noling was guilty of a double murder, they let his 1996 death sentence stand. Michael Benza, visiting associate professor at the law school, said that federal judges who at a state case and think “the state got it absolutely, totally wrong cannot reverse that case unless they find that . . . the state was unreasonable in being wrong.”
