Lucas County Children Services must release records involving three people relevant to the Darnell Jones capital-murder case, but those records shall be shielded from the public, a county judge has ordered.
Jones’ lawyers subpoenaed county records pertaining to Jones, his daughter Kei’mani Latigue, and her grandmother Dorothy Latigue on Aug. 28 as part of their preparation of his defense against charges that he raped and murdered the 13-year-old girl in March.
Common Pleas Judge Michael Goulding ruled Wednesday against a motion to quash that subpoena filed by the Lucas County Prosecutor’s Office on behalf of the children services agency. But he denied Jones’ lawyers proposal that the records be released directly to them and said it would not be necessary for a different judge to review the records for relevance to the case…