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A law adopted in 2000 lowered the sentence of a witness who came to an agreement with the prosecution in trials concerning money-laundering, but it was not called a crown witness rule. [25] In 2009 a new crown witness rule came into force and since then, witnesses in a wider range of cases have been allowed to become a crown witnesses. [26] [27]
In 1992, the United States Attorney General released 24 recommendations to strengthen the criminal justice system's treatment of crime victims. [3] The Attorney General endorsed the use of victim impact statements and stated that judges should "provide for hearing and considering the victims' perspective at sentencing and at any early release ...
Yost defeated his Democratic opponent Steve Dettelbach, who previously served as the United States attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, in the 2018 Ohio Attorney General election. [11] In the 2022 election , Yost was re-elected to his position over Democratic candidate Jeffrey Crossman , a member of the Ohio House from Parma .
When Ohio’s top prosecutor announced the arrest of a sex worker accused of drugging and killing four customers, he failed to consider the victims and instead shamed them, the family of one ...
Nov 7, 2023; Columbus, Ohio, US; Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost speaks with the press at the Issue One watch party hosted by Protect Women Ohio at the Center for Christian Virtue in Downtown ...
After 30 years of advocacy efforts by the Ohio Alliance to End Sexual Violence and Ohio rape crisis organizations, Ohio is one step closer to eliminating the spousal rape exemption with a near ...
The position was created in 1993 by Ohio Attorney General Lee Fisher and was first filled by Richard Cordray. It is a similar position to Solicitors in many states and is modeled after the United States Solicitor General. [1] By 2003, twenty-nine states had Solicitors General, although only eight had them fifteen years earlier. [2]
Ohio's high court has given Republican Attorney General Dave Yost until Monday to respond to the legal claims of a coalition of civil rights organizations that is challenging his rejection of a ...