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Guest Post on Ohio’s Serious Youthful Offender Law — 2 Comments

  1. Any suggestions how this law can be expanded to include “youthful offenders” between the age of 18 and 21? I am interested in providing relief for my son for a conviction of unlawful sexual conduct with a minor when he was eighteen, she was fourteen, and he was a little over four years older. I am trying to get the legislature to establish a more “proportional” approach to registration, so that the offender who is 4 years and a day older isn’t automatically required to register as Tier II; if he had been two days younger, he would not be required to register at all. This is true whether the ages are 18/14, or 19/15. The days are what makes the difference, not the years.