A teenager suspected of killing three students in an Ohio high school cafeteria a year ago is due back in court Tuesday.

Having detectives work as transcriptionists bogs down the workflow for police investigations, according to commanders and detectives at the Sandusky Police Department. A 2011 study of police operations reached the same conclusions.

Judges have denied an appeal from a used car salesman serving five and a half years in prison on a series of theft, forgery and motor vehicle title convictions.