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Ohio Supreme Court Rules Indigent Sex Predator Gets Paid Expert Witness
Loaded on May 15, 2002
published in Prison Legal News
May, 2002, page 21
The Ohio Supreme Court has held that an indigent defendant in a sexual predator classification hearing is entitled to an expert witness at state expense "if the court determines, within its sound discretion, that such services are reasonably necessary to determine whether the offender is likely to engage in the …
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