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Randy Resh and Bob Gondor are free men
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The Plain Dealer April 27, 2007 16:58PM
Thomas Ondrey/The Plain DealerRandy
Resh, left, and Bob Gondor, Portage
County men who were cleared of murder
charges after 16 years in prison, admire
a Rembrandt painting given by a friend
at a welcome home party in Mantua Twp.
today. The friend, Metod (cq) Zanoskar,
said that he felt Gondor's steadfast
maintanence of his innocence reminded
him of the Dutch warrior depicted by
Rembrandt.
 Thomas
Ondrey/The Plain DealerRandy
Resh, back to camera, embraces Clarence
Elkins as Bob Gondor looks on at right,
at a welcome home party in Mantua. All
three men were found innocent of charges
that had kept them in prison for years.
 Thomas
Ondrey/The Plain DealerBob
Gondor, embraces his brother Jim Gondor
(back to camera), who drove up from
Florida to Mantua for a party to
celebrate the end of Bob's murder
charges after 16 years in prison, Friday
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Family and friends gather after Randy Resh was found not guilty
of Connie Nardi's murder. |
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Randy Resh at home after acquital. |
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Family and friends gather after Randy Resh was found not guilty
of Connie Nardi's murder. |
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Co-defendant Bob Gondor will be re-tried next. |
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Randy Resh being re-tried in Portage County Common Pleas Court. |
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Randy Resh being re-tried in Portage County Common Pleas Court. |
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(Mike Cardew/Akron Beacon Journal)
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Attorney Greg Robey, left, defendant Randy Resh, center,
and Attorney Mark Marein react as not guilty verdicts
are read in his re-trial for the murder of Connie Nardi
in Portage County Common Pleas Court, Wednesday April
18, 2007 in Ravenna, Ohio.
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(Mike Cardew/Akron Beacon Journal)
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Defendant Randy Resh, reacts as not guilty verdicts are
read in his re-trial for the murder of Connie Nardi in
Portage County Common Pleas Court, Wednesday April 18,
2007 in Ravenna, Ohio.
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(Mike Cardew/Akron Beacon Journal)
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Defendant Randy Resh, left, cries tears of relief on the
shoulder of his attorney Mark Marein after not guilty
verdicts were read in his re-trial for the murder of
Connie Nardi in Portage County Common Pleas Court,
Wednesday April 18, 2007 in Ravenna, Ohio.
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(Mike Cardew/Akron Beacon Journal)
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Louise Resh hugs her son Randy Resh after his was
acquitted in his re-trial for murder in the death of
Connie Nardi in Portage County Common Pleas Court,
Wednesday April 18, 2007 in Ravenna, Ohio.
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(Mike Cardew/Akron Beacon Journal)
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Traci Grimm, Randy Resh's ex-wife, gives him a kiss
after he was found not guilty in the death of Connie
Nardi.
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(Mike Cardew/Akron Beacon Journal)
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Attorney Greg Robey, left, listens as Randy Resh calls
his best friend Bob Gondor, also facing a retrial in the
same case, to tell him the news of being found not
guilty in his retrial for the murder Connie Nardi in
Portage County common Pleas Court, Wednesday April 18,
2007 in Ravenna, Ohio. Gondor's retrial, originally
scheduled to beging today, was delayed earlier this week
until May 14.
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(Mike Cardew/Akron Beacon Journal)
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Randy Resh cuts off the electronic monitoring device
that was on his ankle when leaving the Portage County
Courthouse after being acquitted in his re-trial for the
death of Connie Nardi, Wednesday April 18, 2007 in
Ravenna, Ohio.
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(Mike Cardew/Akron Beacon Journal)
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Randy Resh, right, and his ex-wife Traci Grimm, arrive
at Bob Gondor's home to celebrate his acquittal in the
death of Connie Nardi Wednesday.
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(Mike Cardew/Akron Beacon Journal)
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Randy Resh, left, is congradulated by Bob Gondor's
brother Jim Gondor at Bob Gondor's home after Resh was
acquitted in the death of Connie Nardi Wednesday April
18, 2007 in Ravenna, Ohio.
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(Mike Cardew/Akron Beacon Journal)
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Randy Resh, left, hugs Bob Gondor at Gondor's home
Wednesday after Resh was acquitted in the death of
Connie Nardi.
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Bob Gondor, center,
with his mother, Julia Farago and step-father John Farago after he was
released from the Portage County Jail after spending 16 years in
prison for the 1988 murder of Connie Nardi. His conviction was
overturned and a new trial has been scheduled.
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Friends and family jam into the Portage County Courthouse to attend
bond hearings for Randy Resh and Bob Gondor, Friday, Jan 19, 2007. |
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Randy Resh waits for his bond hearing to begin this morning in the
courtroom of Laurie J. Pittman at the Portage County Courthouse. ,
Resh and his lifelong friend, Bob Gondor, were tried separately in
1990 and convicted of the attempted rape and murder of Connie Nardi of
Randolph Township. But on Dec. 26 -- after years of appeals-- a
unanimous Ohio Supreme Court vacated the convictions and ordered new
trials for each man. The seven-member court found the men had
ineffective trial counsel.
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Randy Resh is flanked by his attorneys, Greg Robey, left, and Mark
Marein, right, during his bond hearing this morning in the courtroom
of Laurie J. Pittman in Portage County Common Pleas Court.
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Eleanor Resh, the mother of Randy Resh, reacts after she heard the
news her son will be released on bond during a hearing in the
courtroom of Judge Laurie J. Pittman at
Portage County Common Pleas Court
today.
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Portage County Assistant Prosecutor Tom Buchanan, listens to Judge
Laurie J. Pittman during a bond hearing for Randy Resh in Portage
County Common Pleas Court this morning.
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Randy Resh leaves the courtroom of Laurie J. Pittman after the judge
granted him a release bond this morning.
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(Ken Love/Akron Beacon Journal) |
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Attorney Dave
Hanson, left, talks to his client Bob Gondor, right, in the
courtroom of Judge John A. Enlow in Portage County Common Pleas
Court this morning during a bond hearing. |
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(Ken Love/Akron Beacon Journal) |
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Bob Gondor's
mother, Farago Gondor reacts after she hearing her son will be
released on bond after a ruling by Judge John A. Enlow in
Portage County Common Pleas Court this morning. |
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(Ken Love/Akron Beacon Journal) |
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Judge John A
Enlow talks to attorneys and prosecutors during a bond hearing
for Bob Gondor in
Portage County Common Pleas Court
this morning. |
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(Ken Love/Akron Beacon Journal) |
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Bob Gondor's
mother, Farago Gondor (left) hugs her son other son, Jim Gondor,
at the conclusion of a bond hearing in the courtroom of Judge
John A. Enlow this morning. |
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(Ken Love/Akron Beacon Journal) |
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Bob Gondor
listens to the proceedings during a bond hearing in the
courtroom of Judge John A. Enlow. Gondor, was granted a $10,000
bond by Common Pleas Judge John A. Enlow, which was posted. |
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Patty Vechery,
second from left, a family friend hugs a unidentified person,
far left, as Bob Gondor's mother, Farago Gondor, thid from left,
hugs family friend Eric Williams, right following a bond hearing
in the courtroom of Judge John A. Enlow in Portage County Common
Pleas Court this morning. Gondor, was granted a $10,000 bond by
Common Pleas Judge John A. Enlow, which was posted. |
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(Ken Love/Akron Beacon Journal) |
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Bob Gondor,
left, is released from the Portage County Jail after a bond
hearing before Judge John A. Enlow this morning. Greeting Gondor
is his brother Jim Gondor, center, and his mother Farago Gondo. |
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Bob Gondor,
left, hugs his mother Farago after leaving the Portage County
Jail,
Friday, Jan 19, 2007,
in Portage Conty, OH. In an unanimous decision by seven
justices, the Ohio Supreme Court granted Gondor and Randy Resh
new trials and vacated their convictions for the 1988 attempted
rape and murder of Connie Nardi, 31, a divorced mother of two
from
Randolph
Township. |
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(Ken Love/Akron Beacon Journal) |
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Bob Gondor,
left, hugs his brother Jim, after leaving the Portage County
Jail,
Friday, Jan 19, 2007, in Portage Conty, OH. In an unanimous decision by seven
justices, the Ohio Supreme Court granted Gondor and Randy Resh
new trials and vacated their convictions for the 1988 attempted
rape and murder of Connie Nardi, 31, a divorced mother of two
from
Randolph Township. |
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(Ken Love/Akron Beacon Journal) |
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Bob Gondor,
center, leaves the Portage County Jail with family friend Patty
Vechery of Chardon, Friday, Jan 19, 2007, in Portage Conty, OH.
In an unanimous decision by seven justices, the Ohio Supreme
Court granted Gondor and Randy Resh new trials and vacated their
convictions for the 1988 attempted rape and murder of Connie
Nardi, 31, a divorced mother of two from
Randolph
Township. |
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(Ken Love/Akron Beacon Journal) |
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Randy Resh
(fourth from left) adjusts his court-ordered ankle monitor while
celebrating his release from jail on bond with family members
including his sisters, Michelle Resh(left) and Connie Dawes;
Dawes' daughter, Amy Johansen; and Randy Resh's niece, Ashley,
on Friday, Jan. 19, 2007, at his parents' home in
Mantua, Ohio. |
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(Ken Love/Akron Beacon Journal) |
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Bob Gondor
(left) talks with childhood friend, Bret Murray, in the garage
of Gondor's late father's house on Friday, Jan. 19, 2007, in
Mantua, Ohio. |
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(Ken Love/Akron Beacon Journal) |
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Bob Gondor
(left) watches television at the home of his late father on
Friday, Jan. 19, 2007, in
Mangua,
Ohio.
Family friend Stela Bognar (right) now lives in the house. |
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(Ken Love/Akron Beacon Journal) |
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Bob Gondor
stands in the kitchen of the house of his late father on
Friday, Jan. 19, 2007, in
Mantua,
Ohio. |
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(Ken Love/Akron Beacon Journal) |
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Bob Gondor talks
on the phone on Friday, Jan. 19, 2007, in Mantua, Ohio. Gondor
is staying in the house of his late father while on house arrest |
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(Ken Love/Akron Beacon Journal) |
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Bob Gondor
(right) relaxes with his brother, Jim, and family friend, Stela
Bognar, at the home of his late father on Friday, Jan. 19, 2007,
in Mangua, Ohio. |
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(Ken Love/Akron Beacon Journal) |
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Bob Gondor talks
on the phone on Friday, Jan. 19, 2007, in Mantua, Ohio. Gondor
is staying in the house of his late father while on house
arrest. |
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(Ken Love/Akron Beacon Journal) |
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Randy Resh calls
Bob Gondor from his parents' home on Friday, Jan. 19, 2007, in Mantua.
Ohio. |
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(Ken Love/Akron Beacon Journal) |
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Randy Resh
(left) relaxes at the home of his parents, Eleanor and Guy Resh,
on
Friday, Jan. 19, 2007, in
Mantua.
Ohio. |
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(Ken Love/Akron Beacon Journal) |
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Randy Resh
(left) cuts a cake that family members brought for him while at
the home of his parents,, Eleanor and Guy Resh, on Friday, Jan.
19, 2007, in Mantua.
Ohio. |
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(Ken Love/Akron Beacon Journal) |
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Randy Resh
(third from left) relaxes at his parents' home with relatives
including his sister, Connie Dawes (left), her daughter, Amy
Johansen, and Resh's niece, Ashley, on Friday, Jan. 19, 2007, in
Mantua. Ohio. |
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(Ken Love/Akron Beacon Journal) |
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Randy Resh
(third from left) relaxes at his parents' home with relatives
including his sister, Connie Dawes (left), her daughter, Amy
Johansen, and Resh's niece, Ashley, and brother, Mike, on
Friday, Jan. 19, 2007, in Mantua.
Ohio. |
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(Ken Love/Akron Beacon Journal) |
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Friends and
family celebrate the release from prison of Randy Resh (third
from right) in a gathering at the home of his parents, Eleanor
and Guy Resh, on
Friday, Jan. 19, 2007, in
Mantua,
Ohio. |
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