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Melissa Powers is an attorney and retired judge currently serving as prosecuting attorney for Hamilton County, Ohio. [1] She has served in this position since January 2023, [2] and was appointed after incumbent Joseph Deters left the job for a position on the Ohio Supreme Court. [3] Powers is a member of the Republican Party. [4]
The suspension process starts when the county prosecutor, Ohio Attorney General or State Auditor sends the charging documents in the criminal case to the Ohio Supreme Court.
Ohio's prison system is the sixth-largest in America, with 27 state prisons and three facilities for juveniles. In December 2018, the number of inmates in Ohio totaled 49,255, with the prison system spending nearly $1.8 billion that year. [2] ODRC headquarters are located in Columbus. [3]
In the United States federal system, the prosecutor has wide latitude in determining when, who, how, and even whether to prosecute for apparent violations of federal criminal law. The prosecutor's broad discretion in such areas as initiating or forgoing prosecutions, selecting or recommending specific charges, and terminating prosecutions by ...
In a 4-3 decision issued Tuesday, the Ohio Supreme Court said a judge can't add time to a sentence because of an angry, disrespectful outburst. Instead, that's more appropriately addressed through ...
In 1998 under the tutelage of former Attorney General Betty Montgomery, a $20.3 million, 122,000-square-foot (11,300 m 2) facility was erected which allowed BCI to be more visible to the community and expands its assistance to law enforcement. Since 1999, the Bureau has grown to staff more than 300 employees within its four main divisions ...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio prosecutor says it is not within his power to drop a criminal charge against a woman who miscarried in the restroom at her home, regardless of the pressure being ...
In jurisprudence, prosecutorial misconduct or prosecutorial overreach is "an illegal act or failing to act, on the part of a prosecutor, especially an attempt to sway the jury to wrongly convict a defendant or to impose a harsher than appropriate punishment." [1] It is similar to selective prosecution. Prosecutors are bound by a set of rules ...