Robert Triozzi to lead new "Day One Project" for Cleveland Marshall College of Law Criminal Justice Center

March 2, 2020

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The ability to afford a lawyer is often the difference between a criminal defendant being released from jail while awaiting trial or having to remain behind bars.

So, the Cleveland Marshall College of Law’s Criminal Justice Center is addressing the issue with the “Day One Project,” a new initiate that teams law students with the Cuyahoga County Public Defender’s Office.

The goal is to provide crime suspects with the time and attention they need to adequately make their case for being released to a judge, time and attention that overtaxed public defenders can’t always provide.

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Last month the Ohio Supreme Court appeared to have settled a question as to whether public bodies found to have violated the Open Meetings Act, R.C. 121.22 — the statute that generally requires public bodies to deliberate and make decisions out in the open — may cure their violations by simply redoing in the open what they failed to do in the first place.

The Ohio Senate continues to consider whether to adopt a measure advanced nearly unanimously by the Ohio House that would authorize many public bodies to conduct meetings virtually.

The Ohio Supreme Court determined that a township’s mailing and email lists, used for the purposes of distributing newsletters to residents and businesses, were subject to the Public Records Act, R.C. 149.43

Robert Triozzi to lead new "Day One Project" for Cleveland Marshall College of Law Criminal Justice Center

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