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A sentencing commission working on criminal code improvements and revision

By Douglas A. Berman

I am not quite sure what impressese me more: the fact that my home state sentencing commission is working seriously on criminal code improvements or the fact that my home town newspaper has this entertaining article on the commission's work, headlined "State commission has plan to translate revised code."  Here are snippets from the article:Lacking plot and drama, the Ohio Revised Code will never read like a J.K. Rowling or Danielle Steel novel.  Still, some think legislators should strive to make Ohio's law of the land more readable to those who didn't graduate cum laude from law school. Among the duties of the Ohio Criminal Sentencing Commission is to find ways to make the revised code more reader friendly.  To that end, it has crafted an 88-page report that suggests how to make some felony sentencing statutes easier on the brain and provides general guidelines to lighten text throughout the code...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on July 05, 2008 (boomark / email).