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Ohio State Bar Association recognizes excellence in the profession at its virtual Annual Meeting

Please, reenter the code in the captcha! The link was successfully Sent! Ooops!:( An error has occurred!   Judge Mary Jane Trapp. (Submitted photos) Ohio Supreme Court Justice Melody Stewart. Karen E. Rubin. • • • • On Friday, May 14, the Ohio State Bar Association (OSBA) recognized excellence in the legal profession at its 2021 Virtual Annual Meeting.   The event included the presentation of the Ohio Bar Medal – the OSBA’s highest honor – to Judge Mary Jane Trapp of the 11th District Court of Appeals.   In addition, Ohio Supreme Court Justice Melody Stewart received the OSBA Women in the Profession Section’s Nettie Cronise Lutes Award. The OSBA’s Eugene Weir Award for Ethics and Professionalism went to Cleveland attorney Karen E. Rubin, and the Ohio Access to Justice Foundat

Sentencing Law and Policy: Marijuana legalization and expungement in early 2021

Marijuana legalization and expungement in early 2021 The title of this post is the title of this great new report authored by David Schlussel that was assisted in various ways by folks at Collateral Consequences Resource Center and Drug Enforcement and Policy Center (DEPC) at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law.  Here is the abstract to the report: Early 2021 was an unprecedented period for policymaking at the intersection of marijuana legalization and criminal record reform. Between February and April, four states enacted legislation legalizing recreational marijuana.  In conjunction with legalization, these states (New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, and Virginia) also enacted innovative criminal policy reforms including the automatic expungement of an exceptionally broad array of past marijuana convictions along with a variety of social equity provisions.

The Christian Science Monitor Daily for May 3, 2021

Tarahrick Terry’s case is, broadly, a story about regret and redemption. But it’s also a story about how the specific wording in a law can quickly breed confusion in the courts. The sentencing rule that treated crack cocaine 100 times worse than powder had been in effect for 20 years by the time Mr. Terry was sentenced in 2008. The disparity has come to be viewed, by critics spanning the political spectrum, as one of the great injustices of the war on drugs. It’s been one of the key drivers of mass incarceration, those critics say, in particular subjecting thousands of low-level offenders – the vast majority young people of color – to long prison terms.

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