Lou Grieco covers courts, in particular Montgomery County Common Pleas Court and the U.S. District Court in Dayton. A native of Philadelphia, Grieco has been a reporter with the Dayton Daily News since 1993. He has a bachelor's degree in English Writing from the University of Pittsburgh and a master's in journalism from the University of Missouri-Columbia.

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COLUMBUS — The option to waive the right to a jury trial could be taken away from defendants under a bill pending in the state’s House of Representatives.
DAYTON — Roger Dean Gillispie is out of prison, but his legal saga will continue, possibly for years, as his cases work through both the state and federal courts.
LONDON, Ohio — The first place Roger Dean Gillispie went after 20 years in prison was a bowling alley.
SPRINGFIELD — When Ohio’s death row moves to Chillicothe Correctional Institution this month, six notorious prisoners will be left behind, including Springfield’s Jason Dean.
SPRINGFIELD — When Ohio’s death row moves to Chillicothe Correctional Institution this month, six notorious prisoners will be left behind, including Springfield’s Jason Dean.
DAYTON — Convicted murderer Marvallous Keene owes the Montgomery County Clerk of Courts office $1,456 in court costs, but there’s no way to collect it.
DAYTON — A Florida man accused of killing two people in a violent car crash was indicted Tuesday on four felony counts and a misdemeanor.
Much of the state’s prison reform bill goes against the “tough-on-crime” approaches of the past three decades.
DAYTON — The jury that convicted China Arnold of killing her baby in a microwave oven recommended life without the possibility of parole Friday, sparing the Dayton mother of a possible death sentence.
DAYTON — Two Dayton residents have been accused of keeping an elementary-school aged girl locked in an apartment for six years, letting her out only to go to school.
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