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The portion of the Reagan Tokes Act that became law in 2018 requires judges to sentence offenders responsible for class one and two felonies [78] (which are the most serious felonies in Ohio) [79] to a range of years in prison consisting of a minimum term and a maximum term. If the offender is being sentenced for a single offense, the maximum ...
Jessica's Law is the informal name given to a 2005 Florida law, as well as laws in several other states, designed to protect potential victims and reduce a sexual offender's ability to re-offend which includes a mandatory minimum sentence of 25 years in prison and lifetime electronic monitoring when the victim is less than 12 years old.
Life with parole eligibility after 15 years. Rape if the victim was under the age of 13 and the offender caused serious physical harm; or if the victim was age of 13 and the offender used force or a threat of force. Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2907.02 (A) (1) (b) Life with parole eligibility after 25 years or life without parole.
DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — High school classmates of the gunman who killed nine people early Sunday in Dayton, Ohio, say he was suspended for compiling a "hit list" of those he wanted to kill and a ...
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 ...
February 23, 2010 [ 1] Designated NHL. December 23, 2016. The Kent State shootings (also known as the Kent State massacre or May 4 massacre[ 3][ 4][ 5]) were the killing of four and wounding of nine unarmed college students by the Ohio National Guard on the Kent State University campus. The shootings took place on May 4, 1970, during a rally ...
I n 2019, New York passed the Child Victims Act, a law that changed the statute of limitations for victims of childhood sexual abuse, extending the civil limit age from 23 to 55. For victims who ...
Signed into law by President Barack Obama on October 7, 2016. The Survivors' Bill of Rights Act of 2016 ( Pub. L. 114–236 (text) (PDF)) is a landmark civil rights and victims rights legislation in the United States that establishes, for the first time, statutory rights in federal code for survivors of sexual assault and rape.