The constitutional amendment last year brought by Ohio Republican lawmakers and approved in November directing judges on public safety and cash bail inadvertently undermined the state’s entire bail system. Now a July 1 deadline looms.
The following article was originally published in the Ohio Capital Journal and published on News5Cleveland.com under a content-sharing agreement.
A bipartisan team of lawmakers had spent more than a year hashing out a broad overhaul of Ohio’s bail system. The rush toward cash bail undermined that effort. Still, the reformers got one last minute concession. After laying out several specific factors judges must consider, the resolution added, “and any other factor the general assembly may prescribe.”
“Prompt action – that is to say, enactment of a statute containing Criminal Rule 46 by July 1 – is paramount,” the letter read. The Ohio Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers doesn’t always find itself in agreement with prosecutors. OACDL public policy chair Blaise Katter explained the exception.
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