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Sentencing, Drugs, And Prisons: A Lesson From Ohio, Jelani Jefferson Exum
Sentencing, Drugs, And Prisons: A Lesson From Ohio, Jelani Jefferson Exum
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Prison overcrowding has become a familiar story. Current data shows that more than 1 in 100 adults in America—over 2 million people—are incarcerated, earning the United States the distinction of having the highest incarceration rate in the world. It should not be a surprise, therefore, that state and federal prisons are reaching and exceeding capacity. Nor should it be a shock that drug offenders take up many of the beds in those overcapacity prisons. Relative to other crimes, drug sentencing in the United States has been increasingly harsh since the 1970s, and the prison population is feeling the effects …
Urban Agriculture And Other Green Uses: Remaking The Shrinking City, Catherine J. Lacroix
Urban Agriculture And Other Green Uses: Remaking The Shrinking City, Catherine J. Lacroix
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For many decades, the primary challenge of land use law has been how to promote and channel growth and development. Nobody wants stagnation; the cure is growth, and lately the cure has been “smart growth.” In the last several years, however, some cities have begun openly to address a previously unacknowledged truth: some cities will and do shrink. They lose population and have no foreseeable prospect of ever regaining it. The land use planning community has begun to grapple with the issue of the shrinking city, asking how we can achieve managed, “smart” shrinkage To some extent, the answer is …
The Uniform Trust Code (2000) And Its Application To Ohio, David M. English
The Uniform Trust Code (2000) And Its Application To Ohio, David M. English
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This article provides an overview of the U.T.C., focusing on how its enactment would change existing Ohio law. The drafting of the U.T.C. was prompted by the much greater use of trusts in recent years. This greater use of the trust and consequent rise in the number of day-to-day questions involving trusts led to a recognition by the Commissioners that the trust law in most states is thin, leaving many gaps between the often few statutes and reported cases
The Ohio Rules Of Evidence: Part Iii, Paul C. Giannelli
The Ohio Rules Of Evidence: Part Iii, Paul C. Giannelli
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The Ohio Rules Of Evidence: Part Ii, Paul C. Giannelli
The Ohio Rules Of Evidence: Part Ii, Paul C. Giannelli
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The Ohio Rules Of Evidence: Part V, Paul C. Giannelli
The Ohio Rules Of Evidence: Part V, Paul C. Giannelli
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The Ohio Rules Of Evidence: Part Iv, Paul C. Giannelli
The Ohio Rules Of Evidence: Part Iv, Paul C. Giannelli
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The Ohio Rules Of Evidence: Part I, Paul C. Giannelli
The Ohio Rules Of Evidence: Part I, Paul C. Giannelli
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The Ohio Bill Of Rights, Paul C. Giannelli