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Article: CAPITOL REPORT: New law on crime now in effect
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- Call & Post
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- July 11, 1996
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CAPITOL REPORT: New law on crime now in effect.
The month of July has brought about the starting date of a new state law that will have a significant impact on the lives of all citizens of Ohio. The new law cover criminal sentencing.
The new criminal sentencing law will affect those who committed crimes beginning on July 1st. The law is known as "truth-in-sentencing" because it requires that a judge give a specific amount of years that the convicted criminal would actually do. There will no longer, for example, be the 5 to 25 years sentencing that a judge gives following a conviction in court. What will now occur will be that the judge will give a specific number of years to the ...