A convicted serial murderer and child rapist has lost 16 years of credited jail time in a court ruling this week.
In Dayton, the Second District Court of Appeals ruled that Eugene Gall should not be credited with any time he spent incarcerated in a Kentucky penitentiary toward his Ohio convictions and sentences.
“This defendant has a long history of violent conduct,” said Montgomery County Prosecutor Mat Heck in a release.
In 1972, Gall was convicted for the 1970 rape and kidnapping of several women in Butler and Warren counties. For that he was sentenced to three to 20 years in prison, and was released in April 1977.
Within months of release, Gall had committed a number of violent crimes in Ohio and Kentucky, including rape, kidnapping and murder in Montgomery and Greene counties, and the kidnap, rape and murder of a 12-year-old girl from Cincinnati.
Gall committed additional violent crimes in Kentucky, including shooting and injuring a police officer. For that he received an 11-year prison sentence.
Gall was convicted as charged in Montgomery and Greene counties, and sentenced to 47 to 165 years to life in prison.
The Bureau of Sentence Computation — without any notice to Montgomery County Prosecutor’s Office or any of the victims or survivors — credited Gall with 5,807 days of jail time credit for the time he spent imprisoned in Kentucky, according to the local prosecutor’s office.
On November 27, 2013, the Montgomery County Prosecutor's Office filed a motion for an order properly calculating jail time credit. On December 9, 2013, Common Pleas Court Judge Gregory Singer ordered Gall should receive zero days of jail time credit.
On March 4, 2014, the defendant appealed Judge Singer’s ruling. Today, the Court of Appeals agreed that the defendant is entitled to zero days of jail time credit for the time spent in the Kentucky prison.
“We are pleased with the court’s decision rendered today. The victims, as well as the survivors of the homicide, deserve to know that this defendant will spend the rest of his life locked up for the terrible, vicious and deplorable crimes that he committed,” Heck said in a release. “This defendant is clearly a dangerous person who needs to be incarcerated for the rest of his life and never released from prison.”