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Court indictment not defective when it tracks language of statute

By Chuck Kallendorf

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In answering a certified question presented it last Friday, the Supreme Court of Ohio overruled its 2008 decision in State v. Colon holding:1) An indictment that charges an offense by tracking the language of the criminal statute is not defective for failure to identify a culpable mental state when the statute itself fails to specify a mental state. 2) When the General Assembly includes a

Full post as published by Cincinnati Law Library Blog on August 30, 2010 (boomark / email).

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