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Ohio’s Repeat OVI Offender Law Found Unconstitutional

Ohio’s Repeat OVI Offender Law Found Unconstitutional

*Update* On February 3, 2016, the First District (Hamilton County) Court of Appeals considered the same repeat offender specification issue and decided the other way.  In State v. Ballard, 2016-Ohio-364, the First District Court found that prosecutorial discretion in deciding whether to include a repeat offender specification does not make